|CS 71 

.D28 

1903a 
Copy 1 




A HISTORY 



OF THE 



William Dean Family 



OF 



Cornwall, Conn, and Canfield, Ohio, 



Containing the Direct Descent from Thomas Dean of 

Concord, Mass., together with a complete 

Genealogy of William Dean's 

Descendants. 



B. S. DEAN, 



BY 



AND 



Hiram, 0. 



J. £. DEAN, - Pittsburg, Pa. 



1603 l 9°3 







i> 



A HISTORY 






OF THE 



William Dean Family 



OF 



Cornwall, Conn, and Canfield, Ohio, 



Containing the Direct Descent from Thomas Dean of 

Concord, Mass., together with a complete 

Genealogy of William Dean's 

Descendants. 



BY 

B. S. DEAN, - - Hiram, 0. 
1/ 

AND 

J. E. DEAN, - Pittsburg, Pa. 






I'ress of 

The F. W. Roberts Co. 

Cleveland I ' 









PREFATORY NOTE. 

For some time prior to 1900 Mr. Walter S. Dean of Lords- 
town had been gathering up the floating traditions of our fam- 
ily history. At the first annual reunion of the Dean family, 
held in August, 1900, at the residence of Ward Dean of Rose- 
mont, Mr. J. Ernest Dean read a paper upon the early Deans 
of New England. A commitee on family history was appointed 
consisting of W. S. Dean, Lottie M. Sackett and B. S. Dean. 
To the deep regret of all the cousins W. S. Dean was removed 
from our circle by death in 1901. At the next reunion, held at 
the residence of Almus Beardsley, on Dean Hill, Canfield, Mr. 
Ernest Dean was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Walter Dean. The following pages embody the results 
of the committee's labors to the present. 

There have been two marked periods of Puritan migration : 
that which planted hew England from 1620 to 1640, and that 
which planted a new New England in the heart of the continent 
two centuries later. The immediate cause of the first migra- 
tion was the tyranny of King Charles I. ; of the second, the pas- 
sage of the Ordinance of 1787, which gave the Northwest free 
labor and the school house. Our ancestors took part in both 
movements. Our knowledge of their share in the first move- 
ment is limited to a few facts concerning a single person. 
We know many facts about several of the actors in the 
second. To preserve that knowledge from the oblivion that 
has fallen upon our earlier ancestry is the purpose of this 
historical sketch. 

No attempt is here made to give a history of the present gen- 
eration of Deans. A table of the direct line of descent from 
Thomas to William Dean ; a complete table of William Dean's 
descendants ; brief biographies of his children, together with a 
iuller account of his life before and after the migration to Ohio, 
comprise the substance of this pamphlet. If ever the history of 
the present generation is written it must be by our descendants. 
But we ought to be creating and preserving the materials for 
such history. Legal documents having no money value are 



4 UK AN HISTORY. 

reat historic interest and should be carefully pre- 
yed. A hundred times, while preparing these pages, I have 
wished 1 had begun the work while my father was living, or 
lie hail left fuller records as a basis for my work. 
In September, 1901, 1 was permitted to indulge a long cher- 
ished desire t" spend a day in our ancestral town of Cornwall, 
n. With hardh a clue to start with I found a surveyor's 
chart, locating the lands of Reuben Dean, the Cornwall Con- 
gregational Church — the church of Ruth Dean — the old Dean 
mill and Dean house at Cornwall Bridge and the grave of Reu- 
ben Dean. The descriptions of the text are therefore drawn 
from personal observation. Our family history might he di- 
vided into three Periods: Ancient. Mediaeval and Modern. The 
first would extend from the landing of Thomas Dean at Bos- 
ton in 1635 to the settlement of Reuben Dean in Cornwall about 
1740; the second from the settlement in Cornwall to the migra- 
te >n [< > < >hi< » in 1 S 10 ; the third from iS 10 to the present. 

My son, J. E. Dean, has written of the first: I have dealt 
with the third, while we have both touched briefly upon the 
nd. I wi^li to ex|»re>> my thanks to the main cousins who 
have aided in gathering material, especially to cousin Lottie 
kett, who has done the greater part of the correspondence 
relating to her branch of the family. 1 can scarcely hope that 
the record i.s wholly free from error; hut 1 shall be grateful 
for any corrections or the addition of any material facts. 

This little work may fall into the hands of early collateral 
branches of the Dean family, or of others interested in the pre 
.ation of the family history. The writer will esteem it a 
favor to he put on the track of published records or anv other 
of information concerning the family history. 
I he time spent has been snatched from the pressing duties 
of a bus) life. But it has been a labor of love to tell the story 
>ur am . and if these pages shall stimulate their pos- 

teril their plain old-fashioned virtues and to cherish 

famih patriotism, I shall he amply rewarded. 

B. S. DEAN. 
I liram, < >hio, August 13, 19 



THE BEGINNINGS IN NEW ENGLAND. 



THE BEGINNINGS IN NEW ENGLAND. 

BY J. ERNEST DEAN. 

During eleven years, from 1629- 1640, when King Charles I. 
of England reigned without calling Parliament, 23,000 English 
are said to have come to New England. In 1634 the Lords com- 
missioners for the colonies forbade the emigration of all per- 
sons of the degree of "subsidy men" without a special license, 
and all beneath that without evidence of having taken the oath 
of allegiance to the crown. (Subsidy men were those of some 
property subject to certain taxes.) Part of the time records 
were kept of emigrants, but those extant are fragmentary. In 
Hotten's "Ship Lists" we find a published collection of these 
names, for the year 1635. On various days from April 13 to 
May 14 ninety-eight people registered for passage to New Eng- 
land in the ship Elizabeth and Ann. Among these (probably 
registered May 9) we find one "Thos. Dane, carpenter, age 32." 
The date of sailing is not given. Over each of the groups of 
those registered is a statement similar to the following : 
"These underwritten are to be transported to New England, 
embarqued in the Elizabeth and Ann, Roger Coop (Cooper?) 
Mr. The p'ties have brought certificates from the Minister and 
Justices of Peace of their conformitie to ye orders and disci- 
pline of ye church of England and vt they are no subsidy Men. 
They have taken the oath of Allegiance and Supremacy." 

In Sept., 1634, the General Court of Mass. ordered that there 
should be a plantation at Musquetaquid to be called thereafter 
Concord, to contain six miles square of land. The court relieved 
the prospective settlement of taxes for three years and granted 
other privileges. The plantation at Musquetaquid was settled 
by Rev. Peter Bulkely of Odell, England, associated with Si- 
mon Willard, who brought with him about twelve families. Mr. 
Bulkely embarked at London May 9, 1635, in the ship Susan 
and Ellen, accompanied by William Buttrick and Thomas 
Brooks. Mrs. Bulkely sailed two days- before (dates do not 
agree) in the Elizabeth and Ann under the escort of Thos. 



MAS HISTORY 



Dane, from which it may be inferred that by the temporary 
aration of husband and wife the orders prohibiting the de- 
parture of clergymen and subsidy men were more easily 
evaded. 

Rev. Bulkely seemed to be the only man subject to this order. 
llie re-t <ii the Concord nun were of humble station in Eng- 
land, of small mean-, who hoped in the new world to better 
their condition and to enjoy unmolested their simpler forms of 
religious worship. There is no reason to think that the Con- 
cord settlers came together on English soil before sailing. For 
the most part their homes in England were rather widely sep- 
arated. 

Simon Willard, James Hosmer, and probably William Buss 

and Thos. Dane were from Kent. England. There seems to 

have been a strong Kentish influence in the early histor) of the 

settlement. Pushing through the wilderness to the northwest 

of Boston about nineteen miles, they arrived a! their new home. 

the first English town in New England above tidewater. 

The Indian village of Musquetaquid was purchased of Squaw 

Sachem i widow of a great Massachusetts chief), following the 

practice of other Massachusetts settlements in getting their 

rights from both the colonist government and the natives. 

This place, which was one of the chief Indian villages, was 

chosen because ol large open fields along the river which 

the Indian- had burned over each year and cultivated. This 

the labor ol felling forests, but the land proved wet 

and not very profitable. 

ording to the custom of other towns the land was di- 
vided anion- the settlers, giving each a house-lot, so that the 
hou not wideh separated, and larger fields were as- 

farther from town. 

Tolman of Concord says thai Dane's house-lot was part 
■ Bulkely's land, the first lol on the "Bay Road," 
highway of the settlemenl and settled by pioneers. 
m Wolcott's history say that Dane owned a house-lot 
lending from the •■burial lull to the mill pond and 
mmon fields." The record- of the first apportion- 
ed were burned, so that many fact- are lost. Where 
burying -round was i- uncertain. The oldest grave- 



THE BEGINNINGS IN NEW ENGLAND. 

stone is marked 1677. In 1644 there were about fifty families 
in the town. 

In the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 
Vol. XVIII. ( 1864), we find a list of the descendants of Thom- 
as Dane of Concord, Mass. This list was compiled by the late 
John Ward Dean (not of our family), from notes gathered in 
compiling his own family history. We learn this from Henry 
Ernest Woods, his successor as Editor of the Register, who 
states also that so far as he knows no history has been published 
of any of the family of this Thomas Dane, except the list re- 
ferred to. There were a half dozen families of Dean or Deane 
in the very early days of New England, not related, and no 
doubt more of the name came over later, of still other families. 
The list of Deans down to Reuben, Benjamin and William is 
substantially the same as that published in the Register, with a 
few additions and corrections. Elsewhere we print the full list, 
but following is a short article prefacing the list in the Register : 

"Thomas Dane (or Dean as his descendants spell it), was 
born about 1603, being recorded as thirty-two years old when 
he embarked at London, Eng., for New England, May 9 (later) 
1635 in the ship Elizabeth and Ann. He settled at Concord, 
Mass.. as early as 1640. where he lived till his death. Feb. 5, 
1675-6. From 1645-8 his wife was Elizabeth. His wife, Mil- 
dred died m 1675. On the fourth of June, 1658, he contracted 
to put over for seven years to Thomas Welch, of Charlestown, 
his servant, Thomas Ches(man), aged about eleven, which ser- 
vant had been bound to Dane by the officers of Cranbrook in 
Kent, Eng., for sixteen years or until he reached the age of 
twenty-one years. This may serve as a clue to Dane's English 
home, but with no certainty." The earlier accounts we give are 
from Wolcott's history of Concord (1884) and vary a little 
from the above account. 

Thomas Dane lived and died at Concord, Mass. His son 
Joseph passed his whole life at Concord, dying at the age of 
eighty. He married Elizabeth Fuller, of Concord, daughter of 
Lieut. Thos. Fuller, who came in 1638. He was ancestor of 
Margaret Fuller (Ossoli). 

Thomas Dean, son of Joseph, born 1664, lived at Concord 



DEAN IUMoK\ . 

.mil: first, Sarah Blanchard, of Charlestown, and 

-.amah Davis, of Boston. Both marriages were at 

is Blanchard, grandfather of Sarah, came from 

i oncerning the family of Susannah Davis we 

1 nothing. Thomas Dean lived at Giarlestown (part 

. from [697-1700, then went to Plymouth. 

[710 we find him at Pembroke, Mas-, where Reu- 

I >ean was hi >rn. 

In Danbury, Ct., in a chapter on early 

the town, we find mention of the probating of the 

lli. una- Dean, 1730, together with a list of his 

mentioned in the will. 

nil Dean evidently came from Danbury to Cornwall by 

\ T orwalk. Cornwall was founded b) a company 

CO. men who bought a tract of land in 1740, and 

Reuben Dean was an early purchaser from the 

wmpany. In (lold's histon of Cornwall 1 1877) we find this: 

Dean was a celebrated hunter and doctor, lie lived 

lie was fn in \ T orwalk." < >f his wife 

(supposedly Ann Carter) we find nothing. There were Car- 

in N'orwalk, as well as in Cornwall and other parts of 

hfield I 

1 Dean'- son Benjamin married Ruth Tanner, daugh- 

- fanner, a neighbor, who came to Cornwall at 

in-, hut from Rhode Island. Tim-. Tanner was 

•1 in R. I., about 1705. His ancestors came probably from 

' of England, ab< >ut 1641 »~5< i. 1 lannah. a sister 

I Moses Dean, presumably brother of Benja- 

nin. A - named Benjamin. Thomas Tanner, a brother of 

I ryal, his nephew, were both lieutenants in the Rev- 

al was also adjutant to Col. Sedgwick 

We know 'i no Dean- who were our an- 

in the Revolution. Benjamin Dean, the 

■ the Deans of age at all eligible for war. 

Inn the war bn ill and had six children 

untl Reuben 1 lean, Jr., a a aisin of 

A-ith the arm\ at V'allej Forge. A Thomas 
nwall, probabh In-other of Benjamin, was in one 



a 



THE BEGINNINGS IN" NEW ENGLAND. • < 

of the "train bands" or militia companies. Others of the vicin- 
ity of Cornwall, with familiar family names, served in the war, 
but we cannot tell who they were. 

A glance at the family tree will show that the list we have 
only accounts for our direct line which constitute not a tithe of 
those of the name that must exist in this country. The list of 
Deans we publish takes that from the N. E. Hist. & Gen. Reg- 
ister as a basis with additions and corrections from various 
published records. 

William Dean, who came to Ohio, married Parthena Bailey, 
concerning whose family we have few direct records. But by 
piecing together family traditions and records with fragments 
from published records of Sharon, Lebanon and Cornwall, Ct., 
we have a list of names and dates, probably correct, far as it 
goes. William Bailey, going with or possibly following part 
of his family, moved from Sharon, Ct., directly or indirectly 
to New York state somewhere. When an old man he once 
came to Onio, bringing his daughter Hannah. She remained 
in Ohio while he journeyed back to New York with a horse 
and wasfon, which W niiam Dean, his son-in-law, bought him. 

Philander Green (a grandson) says in his autobigraphy that 
William Bailey married a Miss Hunt. That might have been 
true, though his mother's name was also Hunt, if our record 
is true. There was a Hunt family in Lebanon, Ct., a branch 
of a large and very numerous family, among whom no doubt 
the Baileys married for as early as 1730 there could not have 
been many different families of the same name in the town. 

Our William Bailey may possibly have been the William, 
born 1736, son of Saxton Bailey, of the line of John of 
Salisbury, weaver, who was shipwrecked off the coast of 
Maine, 1635. Hannah Hunt, wife of Saxton Bailey, was 
probably a decendent of Deac. Jonathan Hunt, of North- 
ampton, Mass., and of Gov. John Webster, of Ct. (1656). 

•We have no absolute proof of our Bailev ancestrv, DUt con- 
siderable indirect evidence. 

We are corresponding with people who we think can soon 
give us the facts we need. 

The history of the migration to Ohio we leave to another. 



DEAN HISTORY 



Lll-K IN C< iRXWALL I [740-1S10. ) 

BY H. S. DEAN. 

The preceding narration left Reuben Dean in the town of 

irnwall lies in the northwestern part of Litchfield 

which is the northwestern county of Connecticut. The 

river, rising in the * ireen mountains, flows south- 

fhusetts and Connecticut into Long tsland 

rnwall extends about ten miles along the east hank 

•lie. The Berkshire hills of Massachusetts, which 

an extension of the Green Mountain system, con- 

1 northern Connecticut. Family tradition tells of the 

1 and stonv character of the country; but no description 

equal the reality. The original proprietors of the town set 

• the benefit of Yale College. The college 

own- the land. Old President Dwight went up to look 

• property. As the story runs, his feelings vented 

then • 1 'ii this wise : 

"The (lod of nature from His boundless st« ire 
Threw Cornwall into heaps and did no more." 

• . to am >ther versii >n : 

"filed stones on stones, and did no more." 

In an early day Cornwall made a county seat contest. 

orted her opponents, "Go to Cornwall and you will 

• ■ whoever goes in can never get out." 

a half dozen little hamlets in the town: West 

rnwall Bridge on the river and railroad, with 

ornwall Hollow, Xorth ("rnwall and East Corn- 

anion- the hills whose highest summits rise 800 

the river. Mr. Geo. C. Harrison, of Cornwall, an 

(in Conn., a town officer) and an old sur- 

.vn c instruction giving the early al- 

land. Reuben Dean's lands comprised a do/en lots 

•it two hundred acres. They lie on the hills 




■ , b.iilt h\ Reuben 1 >ean abi ml 1 '■- 

■ I rebuilt .it i >iit 1 -SO. 




in in 17^7. 



LIFE IN CORNWALL. 11 

to the east of Cornwall Bridge. Reuben Dean afterward 
bought out to the river and built a grist mill on a little stream 
falling into the Housatonic at Cornwall Bridge. In 1774 
Reuben sold the half interest in the mill to his son Benjamin 
for 7o£. In 1779 the two sold a half interest to Hezekiah 
Carter for 2T,£ 10 s. Later it passed to William Dean. 

Thus, around tnat mill and the hills back of it the family 
life centered for two generations. 

Upon no part of our genealogical line is there so much ob- 
scurity as on the immediate family of Reuben Dean. 

This is due to the migratory character of his earlier life, as 
he was born at Pembroke, Mass., and resident at Danbury, Nor- 
walk and Cornwall, Conn. We are not sure even of his wife's 
name, though family tradition makes it Ann Carter. We are 
in doubt whether the list of his children be complete, and dates 
are largely lacking. 

About a mile below the old mill, in a quiet cemeterv over- 
looking the rushing Housatonic, close by the roadside, stands 
a marble slab, with this simple inscription : 

"IN MEMORY OF REUBEX DEAN. 

HE DIED OCT. 11, 1790. 

AE. 91 YEARS." 

There is nothing to indicate whether or not his companion 
sleeps beside him. 

With the family of Benjamin Dean the darkness becomes 
light once more. Adjoining Reuben Dean's lands on the hills 
lay the farm of Thomas Tanner. Reuben Dean's Benjamin 
and Thomas Tanner's Ruth grew up side by side. After the 
manner of neighbor young men and maidens they loved and 
were duly wedded, and their children's names will be found in 
the genealogical table. 

To the north of the old mill, perhaps eighty rods distant, on a 
low hill in the valley, stands a well-preserved old house. In the 
side of the stone chimney which projects scarcely two feet 
above the ridge of the roof are cut the initials, "B. I).," and the 
date, 1787. It is the oldest house in Cornwall, and is still 
known as the old "Dean House," as the hill is still called 
"Dean Hill." No spot on earth .ave "Dean Hill" in Canneld, 



\- 



I.IAN Ills L'( >K\ . 



ter of such historic interest to the descendants oi 
William Dean. Benjamin and Ruth Dean passed 48 years of 
married life in Cornwall, of which twenty-three were spent 
in this house. Beyond all reasonable doubt, it was to this 
house William Dean brought his Parthena in 1796, and there 
they lived till 1810, when they left Cornwall for Canfield. 
There were born Orpha and Hiram and Orsemus ami James 
ami Benjamin, Jr., and Bailey. The reasons for -> believing 
air many and conclusive. William Dean was the youngest ol 
Benjamin's children, save Joseph. Joseph, according to all 
tlu- famih traditions of him. was not the sort of person to 
have the care of tlu- old people. \n existing memorandum* 
shows that from 1786 to [806, Benjamin Dean was portioning 
off his children in ^uiin of 35 to 1 i<> pounds. William is the 
ne ii' it thus pi irtii med * iff. 

sting legal papers show that Benjamin and William Dean 

joined in the --alt' and purchase of land, and in [810 they came 

to ' Ihio together; all of which goes to show that William Dean 

ed at home with thr old folks and reared his family in part 

in the 1 >ld Ik in 

Before following Benjamin and William Dean to Ohio, it 
be of interest to take a glance at the 1 ither children of Ben- 
jamin. 

At the time of the Revolution 1 nnecticut was alread} a 
populous agricultural state. Emigration was setting in toward 
the (ireen Mountain region so stronglv that when, in 1777, 
Vermont framed her first constitution and made her first at- 
tempt to enter the Union, it w a- a- the State of New G mnecti- 
\mong those, who, in the closing years of the [8th cen- 
turv, went with the current of migration t 1 \ ermont, were two 



sons and one or 111 ire daimht Bentamin Dean: 



>ani< 



James, Ruth and Rachel. In 181 | Daniel moved to < Ihio and 
tied in Wadsworth, where he erected the first cabin in the 
town. Mis numerous descendants have scattered over states 
further wi I ' >n< I lames* sons, about 1845 " r 5°. settled at 
Km. raid ( ii i , Wis. Ruth married, in Vermont, a 

Jonathan Eastman, and after her husband's death removed 



1 1 c 1 i x \ 



LIFE IN CORNWALL. 13 

with her son to North Royalton, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. She 
became blind in her old age. She has descendants in and 
around Cleveland, and in Canfield and vicinity. Rachel mar- 
ried David Hayes, went to Bennington, Vt., and thence in 1812, 
to Canfield, O., where she died of extreme old age, in 1845. 
The Simmons Sackett, Dean Hays and John Flick families are 
among her descendants. 

Martha married Truman Parmley and left three children : 
Augustus, Electa and Luanda, of whose descendants I have 
no knowledge. Joseph removed to Ohio and has descendants 
in Ashtabula county. He is supposed to have died in Medina 
County.* 

In 1796 William Dean was married to Parthena Bailey. 
Concerninig her ancestry we have several clues, but little cer- 
tain knowledge. She was born in Sharon, Conn., the town 
adjoining Cornwall on the west and next to the New York 
line. Her father was William Bailey, and her mother Hannah 
(Hunt ?). Parthena had three sisters, (1) Belinda, who mar- 
ried Alpheus Hitchcock, and lived across the line in New York. 
He poisoned her and was hung for it; (2) Lucy, who was mar- 
ried August 10, 1 8 10, to Samuel Green, of Litchfield county. 
He was a widower with three sons, Alanson, William and 
Almon B. ; (3) Hannah, who never married, but came to Ohio 
prior to 1822, and passed her declining years with grandmother 
Parthena. "Aunt" Hannah wasted away with a lingering con- 
sumption, and died May, 1833. Parthena also had a half- 
sister, Polly Bailey, who married, ( 1 ) Camp ; (2) Truman 

Parmley. By the first marriage she had a son, Alanson, who 
lived and died in Warren, O., where he has descendants. By 
her second she had several children, Cyrus, Curtis, James, Ira, 
Russell and Lucretia, all of whom except Cyrus, moved to 
Wisconsin, and died several years since. t 



*For a partial list of the descendants of William Dean's brothers 
and sisters, see Appendix B. 

f See Appendix C, Bailey Genealogy. 



14 DEAN HISTORY. 



1111'. SECOND MIGRATION:— LIFE IX OHIO. 

BY I:. S. DEAN. 

We n<>w have no means of knowing the immediate causes 
which led to the migration to ( >hio. In general, we know the 
nomic conditions prevailing prior to the war <>t [812, 
Thomas Jefferson's pet measures, The Embargo Act and the 
Non-Intercourse Act bore with especial severity on New Eng- 
land. Trade was prostrate and all business at a standstill. 
Men with growing families were casting about fur means to 
better their condition. A great tide of migration was setting 
toward New Connecticut in Ohio. What fireside discussions 
were held in the old house on the hill we can only imagine. A 
journey of 500 miles in lumber wagons, largely through an 
unbroken forest, was no holiday excursion. To people in their 
prime like William and Parthena it might not seem so formid- 
able. But Benjamin and Ruth were three score anil ten; and 
besides, their r< >■ >t> had struck deep in the >< >il 1 if l a irnwall . and 
it is hard to transplant an old tree. But the die was cast. 
Legal documents, still extant, show that for some months prior 
to the autumn of 1S10. Benjamin and William Dean were sev- 
ering the property ties that hound them to Cornwall. Early in 
itember they turned their faces toward the promised land of 
1 'hio. The company numbered fifteen persons, hirst, as prime 
movers in the enterprise, were William and Parthena Dean. 
With them went the aged Benjamin and Ruth. Five children 
of William, ranging in age from a few months to [3 years, 

re in the company: < )rpha, Hiram, < Irsemus, Benjamin and 

James had recently died (of small-pox, I think). In 

addition to the Dean family, there were Samuel Green and his 

new id wife. Lucy Bailey Green, together with Green's 

hildren b\ his first wife. Alanson, William and Almon 1'.. A 

young man named John Young made the fifteenth. 

There were three main routes by which the early immigrants 

lied < 'hio. ( in,- up tin- Potomac and down the Youghiog- 

ham and Monongehela past Pittsburg. This was the route of 



LIFE IN OHIO. 15 

those entering from Virginia. A second, followed by people 
from Philadelphia and vicinity, was over the old Pennsylvania 
military road to Pittsburg. A third was up the Mohawk and 
along the shore of Lake Erie. This was the usual route of 
New Englanders bound to the Western Reserve. I have 
heard my father say they crossed the Hudson at Troy. Cousin 
Jennie Turner remembers hearing aunt Orpha Sackett speak 
of their passing Lake Chautauqua. A majority of the early set- 
tlers came with ox teams and were six weeks on the way. The 
Dean caravan came with horses and were four weeks on the 
road, arriving in Canfield on the ioth of October. 

The Deans were not the first Cornwall people in Canfield. 
William Chidester, who married Martha Dean, daughter of 
Thomas and cousin of William Dean, was one of the first set- 
tlers in Canfield, arriving in 1802. Of their numerous family, 
Royal, the youngest, was the first male child born in Canfield. 
In 1809, the oldest son, Philo, returned on a visit to Cornwall. 
His journey was made in twenty-three days. Mis? Eva Chid- 
ester, of Canfield, has a letter from him to his parents, giving 
an interesting account of his visit. He called on Benjamin 
Dean and "Grandmother Dean," doubtless Olive Willoughby, 
second wife of Thomas Dean. Others of the Dean family are 
mentioned, but no allusion is made to any intended migration 
of the Deans to Ohio. Did the visit of young Philo and his 
reports concerning Ohio give William Dean the Ohio fever 
and lead to his migration the next year ? It is possible. At all 
events there were close business relations between the two fam- 
ilies. Family tradition makes William Chidester the agent of 
William Dean in the land contract. Under date of August 
18, 1810, James Johnston, of Litchfield county, Conn., deeds to 
Benjamin and William Dean lots 5 and 25 in Canfield, O., con- 
taining 588 acres, together with 67 acres of lot 8. The price 
was $2,673.80. Under the same date by separate deed he con- 
veys to William Dean 100 acres of lot 8, for $500. The next 
spring. May 11, 181 1, William Chidester conveys to Benjamin 
and William Dean 1883-100 acres of lot 18 for $224. Lots 5 
and 25 lie on the north side of the Palmyra road and include 
present lands of Almus Beardsley, Munson Chidester and sev- 



1)1 \N HISTORY. 

■ [8 lies on the south side of the same road and 
mils of Munson Chidester and . Minus Beardsley. Lot 
1 the extreme northwest corner of Canfield and includes 
1 Hayes farm, now owned by (lark Ewing. < hi 
loutheast corner of lol [8, marly opposite the pres- 
ent residence of Henry M. Hine, there stood a log" cabin. There 
the 1 Jeans began the business < if hi ime making in < )hii >. 

ittle incident of the first winter illustrates the experiences 

i pioneer housewife. Somehow they had secured a pig to 

ler. Parthena carefully tried out the lard fur family use 

hrough the winter. Pouring the hot lard into a jar on the 

rth, the jar broke and away went the lard through 

cracks in the hearth. It was no laughing matter to a 

thrift) housewife, and. woman-like, Parthena sat down and had 

: but William comforted her with the promise that 

he w< mid find am ither h 

The ' ireen family wintered in a sheep shed, and then lived 
n the west edge of the Dean farm. There, on July 
Ji, iSii. Philander Green was hum. the father of !•". M. (ireen, 
aii preacher and writer. Aunt Lucy (ireen had 
alvin, who died recently in Medina. I I. 
The aged Benjamin and Ruth did not long survive the trans- 
plantation. Ruth died May m. [812. I have in my possession 
a letter which reads as follows: 

Cornwall in Conn., Sep. 23, [81b 

■ Mrs Rntli Dean, the hearer of this, is a mem- 

nal Preshyterian Church of Christ in this 

ular standing, having ever sustained a good 

mnniended as such to all Christians with 

iia> [have I onui She is not, however, considered as 

h until, hy the divine providence, she is con 

All I 1M< ) I II Y S rONE 

■•. terian Church of Christ in 

is never to have united with a Canfield 

little, bent old woman when she made the 

l farm wagon over wilderness roads. She was 

• be laid in 1 Ihio soil. A year later. |ul\ 



LIFE IN OHIO. 



17 



17, 1813, little Benjamin succumbed to what was known as the 
"army fever." Orsemus was so low with the fever at the time 
that it was not expected he would be living when the family 
returned from the funeral. On August 13, 1815, old Benjamin 
followed his beloved Ruth ami lies beside her in the Center 
cemetery. How long the family continued to live in the origi- 
nal cabin on lot 18. is not known. From the record of deeds it 
appears that in 18 14 William Dean was residing on lot 25. If 
so, it must have been in a rude, temporary cabin, as the more 
permanent home was not built till about 1818. Thus it was 
in a pioneer cabin that old Benjamin and Ruth and little Ben- 
jamin died, Orman and Belinda were born and Orpha was mar- 
ried. I have heard my father say that the chamber was so open 
that in winter mornings snow would often lie thick on the bed. 
A more healthful sleeping room, after all, for growing boys 
than our air-tight modern houses. 

There are few more sightly and beautiful locations on the 
Western Reserve than the crest of Dean Hill. There, about 
the year 1818, William Dean built a commodious brick farm 
house. It was, after the current fashion, an oblong structure 
with four great chimneys and gable walls rising above the roof. 
It stood until the early sixties, when Cousin Almus Beardsley 
tore it down to make room for his present brick residence. 
That old brick house became the center of a noble family life, 
whose details, now lost, would fill a volume. Here in the 
thirties, "Aunt Hannah" and Grandmother Parthena died. 
Here Aunt Belinda was married and several of her children 
were born. Here the second wife, Rebecca, and little Rachel 
died; and here, in 1847, William Dean ended his pilgrimage. 
Here, for a number of years, the little Canfield Baptist church 
held its meetings. 



1 - \ N 1 1 i S ! 



1111 hi \N HILL CHURCH. 

l ; r. >in the original church records \\<>\\ in my possession and 
from A. S. Hayden's "Histon of the Disciples on the Western 
Reserve," 1 glean the following facts: 

Prior to 1822 there were several families of Baptists in the 
neighborhood, with meetings at private houses. Finally, on 
I unitary [2, [822, a formal organization was effected at the 
hi inse 1 if I >a\ id I [ayes. Tin »mas Miller was the 1 ifficiating min 
ister. Samuel Hayden, of Youngstown, and his son William. 
sat "ii the council. Among the charter members, were David 
Hayes, his wife. Rachel Dean Hayes, and Truman Parmley. 
William and Parthena Dean, Myron and Orpha Dean Sackett, 
already Baptists, do not seem to have been present. The rec- 
ords arc fragmentary and incomplete; hut, first and last, con- 

n the name-- of nearlx the entire Dean connection resident in 
Canfield down to [865. For the first year the meetings were 
held at the house "i" David Hayes; then, till about [828, in the 
house of William Dean. In that year land was purchased of 
William Dean and Harmon Benton for church purposes. There, 
either a house of worship was built or an existing house turned 
into <>ne. The frame meeting house that we older one-- remem- 
ber so well was hiiili about [836. John Flick thinks il was the 
year of the first "Yearh Meeting" in Canfield which was also 
the year Parthena Dean died ( [836). By 1825 the powerful 
writings of Alexander Campbell began to leaven the lit- 
tle church. \ little later the masterful preaching of 
Walter Scott increased the ferment. His first recorded 
was in March, [828. Week after week for 
man) month'- there was such a poring over their Bibles as 
those pioneer farmers had never known. \-, a result, in |une, 
1829, the church voted to lay aside the Baptisl nana' for the 
name < hristian or Disciple* and in place of the Baptist articles 
to take tin- Scriptures as their sole title of faith and practice. 
I lard In the church a house was erected for Walter Scott, and 
•iir the 1 ommunit\ was blessed with his presence and oc- 



LIFE IN OHIO. 19 

casional labors. The church continued its meetings regularly 
until 1865, when death and removal had made such inroads on 
its membership that they disbanded and united, some at Can- 
field Center and some at North Jackson. 

But to return to the thread of our story : In the early 
autumn of 1836 Parthena Dean was stricken with erysipelas, 
and after a brief illness passed away. The last week of August 
one of the famous "Yearly Meetings" had been held in Canfield. 
Among the numerous converts were Bailey and Belinda Dean, 
the last of Parthena's flock to enter the Christian fold. I think 
she was already stricken with her mortal illness ; and when the 
word was brought to her the joy of her heart broke forth in the 
words of old Simeon. "Now lettest thou thy servant depart in 
peace." Within two weeks her prayer was fulfilled, and she 
sleeps with old Benjamin and Ruth and little Benjamin and 
Aunt Hannah Bailey in the Center cemetery. Hard by are 
also the graves of little Tames and Parthena, children of Orse- 
mus and Rhoda, who had died a few years before. 

The old circle on the Hill was fast breaking up. One by one 
Orpha and Hiram and Orsemus and Bailey and Orman had 
gone out to found homes of their own. (July Belinda was left. 
In his loneliness grandfather brought a new wife to the old 
home, Mrs. Rebecca Mulner. She remained a few years and 
passed away, leaving a baby Rebecca. And then, in his old age, 
a third wife came to relieve the tedious hours ; and Belinda, 
who had married, came back with her husband to care for her 
father until he was called from his earthly toils. He died on 
the seventeenth of March, 1847, aged 73 years, and rests just 
across the way in the Hill cemetery beside his wife, Rebecca, 
and their baby girl, Rachel. We have no portraits of William 
and Parthena Dean, but have a fair knowledge of their general 
appearance and character. William Dean was about six feet 
in height and weighed about 180 pounds. He had grey eyes 
and light brown hair. As an illustration of his strength it is told 
that he could stand in a half bushel and shoulder a three bushel 
bag of wheat. (He was a miller in Connecticut). His fine 
constitution should have carried him to four score and five 
vears. He died of pneumonia, caused by a chill after threshing. 



1)1 AN HISTORY. 

He ua-< of a jovial turn. eas\ going and rather lax in family 
ipline. IK- was a man of strict business integrity, liberal in 
iti rs and m< idating t< i neighb n s. He was a 

inch liaptist, but went with the Canfield church into the re- 
nation movement already described. I remember hearing 
mv father speak of some difficult} grandfather had after leav- 
necticut over some unpaid church tax. I 'mil the adop- 
tion of the new constitution in [818 it was the law in that state 
even person for the support of the Congregational 
church. The law had been so modified that, if there was some 
otln mi/i-d church in a town a man might divert his 

church tax to its support.* There seems to have been no Baptist 
church in Cornwall, and William Dean's church rates had to 
ngregational church. Whether, like the English 
Hampden, he refused to pay the tax because of its injustice or 
whether it was a matter of simple neglect dues not now appear. 
At any rate, after he came to < Ihio.a house and lot he still own- 
in Cornwall was sold for the taxes to our Walter Johnson, 
(jrandfather redeemed the property and the tax title came hack 
him and is now among the family papers. The amount of 
- : ■ It was no doubt out of a multitude of such 
:atious ences that the broader constitution of t8i8 

,v. 

I'artheiia [Jean was tall and slender, with dark hair and 

as agile in movement, possessed great energy, and 

famil rnment seems to have fallen mainK into her 

! > die could wield the rod of correction as well 

- of peace. She was a woman of strong convic- 

rvent religious faith and large social nature. 

Hie Dean home was one of unstinted hospitality, the resorl 

the pioin ttler and preacher, and i>\ the 

inltitudes wh tented the great "Yearly Meetinigs." 

Ili:: an old man in northern Trumbull county 

1 me that In stop|K'd at grandfather's during a yearlv meet- 

i whole ox !" 
Among tin n such occasions were Walter Scott and 

ipbells, riiomas and Mexandcr. \fi«r the death of 

it, 231, 237, 354. 



LIFE IN OHIO. 21 

William Dean the old home passed into the hands of Benajah 
and Belinda Dean Austin ; then for a few years it was owned 
successively by Sehon Wadsworth and Dr. J. M. Caldwell. For 
more than forty years it has been in the Dean family again 
through the purchase of Almus Beardsley. and is now one of 
the largest and finest butter producing farms in Mahoning 
county. 

The second annual Dean reunion was held there in 1902. 
How many of us will live to attend a Dean centennial there 
in 1910? 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WILLIAM DEAN'S 

CHILDREN. 

ORPHA DEAN SACKETT. 

The oldest and youngest of Parthena Dean's children were 
girls with twenty years between their births. Owing to this 
fact and the delicate health of the mother, much of the burden 
of a large family "fell upon Orpha. Transplanted into frontier 
life at thirteen, married at twenty, one would hardly look for 
a finished education. But she was a woman of marked mental- 
ity, and evidently made good use of her limited opportunities. 
If I am correct in the chronology of events she did not remain 
to enjoy the new home on the Hill. In the spring of 1817, she 
was married to her neighbor, Myron Sackett, like her, a native 
of Litchfield county. He was one of God's true noDiemen, one 
of the best and most thoroughly balanced men, my father used 
to say. that he ever knew. Both had been religiously reared, 
he as a Congregationalist, she as a Baptist, though neither was 
as yet a church member. After earnest and prayerful study of 
the scriptures they became one in religious conviction and 
identified themselves with the Baptists. This was in iSnj, two 
years after their marriage and three years before the formal 
organization of the Baptist church. Uncle Myron used to give 
a humorous account of their religious experience. Pending the 
decision of the question of church affiliation thev used to alter- 
nate between the Congregational and Baptist meetings. On 
special occasions they would go as occasion required. Once 
there were special services at both places. As they mounted 



i) E AN H ISTOR Y . 

old ■'John" to start to meeting l'ncle Myron p; \ d to let the 
horse choose which way he would go. He took the road to- 
ward Dean Hill and the Baptisl meeting; and so, as I ncle 
Myron said, old "John" made Baptists of them. Perhaps 
Aunt ( >rpha gave him a sly nudge as he went out the gate. At 
any rate she doubtless thought he showed good horse sense. 
Myron Sackett became a pillar in the church and after the 
ecclesiastical resolution of [829 he became an elder in the Con- 
cation of Disciples, an office which he filled with honor 
throughout his life. 

The Sackett home, one mile wesl of Canfield, was a refined 
and hospitable country home. \ numerous family, mostly 
daughters, came to bless it. And seldom have parent- reared 
noble a brood of daughters. \11 too soon the break came. 
In 1849 Myron Sackett died from an attack of pneumonia. 
n the dear old home passed into other hands, and Aunt 
Orpha went to live, first with her daughter, Sarah Austin, at 
Xewton Falls, and later with another daughter, Minerva Austin. 
in Warren. She had been a woman of iron constitution and 
large force of character. With these later years came leisure, 
and opportunity for much reading, and she became well versed 
in current and religious topics. Through the lengthening shad- 
ows she lingered on, and not till [882, when in her 86th year, 
did she exchange her pilgrim's staff for the victor's crown. 



HIRAM 1)1: A X. 

\- I call up the scenes of m\ boyhood, among the most vivid 
n- pictures are the figures of l'ncle Hiram and Aunt 
Rheuby. I can see them slowh toiling up the Hill to the little 
church; he, tall, raw honed, angular; she, short, small framed. 
portly; both true and trusty, the ver\ best material with which 
to build a church or a stat 

A few \ear- after the arrival of the I 'can- in Canfield, Abner 
Mason, from .\Yw York state, settled in the neighboring town 



LIFE IN OHIO. 23 

or Boardman. Among the members of this excellent family 
was the maiden Rheuby. She must have been a comely 
maiden, and soon the bashful Hiram had won Rheuby's heart 
and hand. Courtships were short affairs in those days, and 
soon they had begun the serious business of home-making. 
Their first cabin was erected on the northeast corner of the 
Dean homestead. A few years later they removed to their life- 
long home where their grandson, Munson Chidester now lives. 
There, about 1850, they erected the comfortable farm house 
still occupied by Cousin Munson. This was after the older 
children, Austin, Mason and Priscilla were making homes of 
their own. Uncle Hiram was a quiet man of few words, a 
great homekeeper, rarely going away except to "mill and meet- 
ing." The railroad did not come to Canfield till he was an old 
man, and so far as I can learn, he never rode on it. As he 
once said, he preferred to ride where he could hold the lines. 
He knew little of the intense drive and ambition of modern 
life; but he knew how to to plod, be frugal, be honest, pay his 
debts, provide for his household and help support the church. 
And in all the art and toil of home-making Aunt Rheuby bore 
her full share, turning many a hard-earned shilling in her little 
weaver's shop. Withal, she was a notable housekeeper, her 
beds always sweet and clean and her cooking appetizing. Seven 
children were born to them of whom two died in early child- 
hood and one, Benjamin, gave his noble young life for his 
country in the Civil War. For more than sixty years they 
walked together in life's journey and rest together in the little 
cemetery on the Hill within half a mile of the soot where their 
wedded life began. 



OR S EM US DEAN. 

Among those occasionally attending the little church on the 
Hill were members of the Hayden family, of Youngstown. 
There were seven sons of Samuel Hayden, of whom the eldest 
and youngest, William and Sutton, were well known ministers, 
the latter being the first Principal of the Eclectic Institute, now 



24 DEAN HISTORY. 

Hiram* ollege. In [825 Orsemus wedded Rhoda, the only 

ter in the Harden family, famed, in later years, far and near, 

as were her brothers, for power of song. The day following the 

wedding twenty-four couples on twelve horses escorted them to 

.11 Ilill for the "infair." < >rsemus built a small brick house 
where uncle Hiram afterward lived. In [829 he sold out ami 
bought a larger farm in tin- extreme northwest part of Canfield 
and over the town line in Ellsworth. There for •'!»'> years 
they lived ami reared the largesl family with the most descend 
ant> m the Dean connexion. < >f their thirteen children, nine 
lived to marry, six are still living and seven have living de 
ndants. In the fifties the older children began to go west 
ward, and the year [865 found all the family in or near ('enter, 
l\ ck county, Wis. There in [878 Rhoda ended her pilgrimage 
and in [884 < >rsemus followed his beloved Rhoda. 

About the year 1829 < >rsemus received a fall which disabled 
him fur three years and weakened him for life. Yet, through- 
out a long life, few men worked more hours or accomplished 
larger results; and to his children it has always keen a marvel 
how he reared so large a family on so poor a farm in so large 
a measure of comfort. Both were enterprising and excellent 
managers. Both knew how to economize in matters of mere 
display that they might have to expend on the really vital 
things, the intellectual and spiritual culture of their family. 
All of their children had advantages of s ( ,mc education beyond 
the countn school and seven of them became teachers. < >rse 
nuts was one of the original subscribers to the Eclectic Institute 
always, for a man of his means, a liberal supporter of 
church and missionary work. That was a humble hut hospita- 
ble home. At the great "Yearh Meeting" of [849 it gave 
shelter am) free entertainment to more than too guests. It was 
a religious home. Few people even of larger leisure and culture 
knew their Bibles as did < >rsemu> and Rhoda Dean. No 
stranger could pass a week within that circle without feeling 
its spiritual uplift. Among the cherished memories of that 
home-life is the one of the morning hour when each child read 
his .■ ■ md mother led in song and father poured out his soul 

1 in the mnnumenl tl Center thei of a year, 



LIFE IN OHIO. 25 

in simple heartfelt prayer. Over the unutterable desolation that 
has fallen on that old home there seems still to brood the spirit 
of a devotion that softens the heart and calms the soul in the 
strenuous struggle of life. 



WILLIAM BAILEY DEAN. 

The subject of this sketch was the last of William Dean's 
children born in Connecticut, and the last to pass away. At 
the time of the removal to ( )hio he was a babe in his mother's 
arms. He grew up tall and stately in form like the oaks of the 
Ohio forests. 

Among the early settlers on the Meander in Ellsworth, was 
the family of Philip Diehl from Bedford county, Pa. In this 
household of good German stock he found a true and faithful 
companion for life, in the person of Phoebe Diehl. They began 
life together in the northwest part of Ellsworth, and there, 
within a stone's throw of the spring by which they built their 
first cabin, they passed their lives peacefully together ; and 
there, in the elegant farm mansion erected by his son. Ward 
Dean, Uncle Bailey's life went quietly out in 1891. 

Eleven years before his companion had grown weary with 
life's pilgrimage and laid down its burdens. In the work of 
carving out a home in the wilderness she had been a true yoke 
fellow to him. Industrious, energetic, well versed in the hun- 
dred little economies within and without the home, she con- 
tributed materially to the competence which they came to en- 
joy. She was kind to the sick and needy and on more than 
one occasion she took the orphan to her home and heart. Hav- 
ing but one child, on the death of William Dean's second wife, 
Rebecca, Aunt Phoebe took baby Rebecca to her home, and 
mothered her to womanhood. 

Uncle Bailey, like Aunt Rheuby, loved to go visiting. Aunt 
Phoebe, like Uncle Hiram, was a '"keeper at home." She used 
to say if Bailey and Rheubv had got together they would have 
gone all the time. 

Bailey Dean was a striking figure among men. He stood 



- ,; MAN HISTORY. 

over six feet in his stockings, erect at eighty, with dark eyes 
that could flash at injustice, but that habitually kindled with 
kindly humor, with a rich voice, melodious both in conversation 

and m m-. I lY was a man of strong convictions, frank and fear- 
- in their avowal, yet with such an unfailing humor that he 
made no enemies. I lis religion was of a manly type and men 
believed in him. lie was a charter member of the N'orth Jack- 
son Christian church and an rider to the da) of his death, and 
always liberal in its support. For a laboring man he was a 
great reader of his Bible, of history and of religious literature. 
In social qualities I have never known his superior. His com- 
ing always lighted up the social circle and his visits never 
ceased to be matters of fond anticipation and happy reminis- 
cence. Mis life was spent within four miles of the ■ Id < >hio 
homestead. In his declining years, from his pleasant room he 
could look t«>ward the rising sun, over the valley to the Mill 
where his boyhood was passed, where the old church stood and 
where so many dear to his heart were sleeping. The end came 
peacefully and almost without pain. < m the night of Inh 4. 
1891, he retired in usual health and awoke — (// home. Me 
sleeps at that Mecca of our familv, Dean Mill. 



ORMAN DEAN. 

Orman Dean was the first of the family horn in t Miio. 
When a lad oi five years an accident nearly deprived him of the 
use of his right arm. As he seemed unfitted for manual labor 
it was decided to educate him for a doctor. At the age of 
eighteen he began the stud) of medicine with the elder Dr. 
Fowler, of Canfield. During the period of his medical studies 
and for several wars afterward he taught school winters a 
total of 1 1 terms. The first winter In- received $9.00 per mouth 
and "boarded around." In the spring of 1834 he set out with 
horse and saddle bags for western Ohio, then an almost un- 
broken forest. There, near tin present city of Findlay, he 
bought eight) acres of land, intending to combine farming 



LIFE IN OHIO. 27 

with the practice of the medical art. Some scoundred stole his 
horse and saddle. Cholera was epidemic in that section. He 
became discouraged ; returned to Canfield on foot ; broke his 
leg; married Nancy Williams in the spring of 1835 and settled 
in Champion, where his son Walter was born. In 1838 he re- 
moved to the fine farm in Lordstown, which continued to be 
the scene of their united toils for more than fifty years. Here, 
in the midst of the abundance which their toil and economy had 
created, Orman Dean's life came to a close in 1889. 1* nac ' a 
checkered and troubled beginning ; its end was peace. Aunt 
Nancy survived him for seven years. She had borne her full 
share in the business of building the home and rearing the 
family. Quiet, even tempered, soothing, she served as an ex- 
cellent oil to his somewhat impetuous nature. Lncle Orman 
was a man of marked mentality, a great reader, with a reten- 
tive memory and a capital faculty for telling what he knew. 
He had a turn for debate and in his mature years was able to 
hold his own with the boys in the neighborhood debating so- 
cieties. He early became a member of the church on Dean 
Hill. Later he united with the church in Lordstown and was 
active in the public meetings and conscientious in its support 
throughout his life. Orman and Nancy were not greatly given 
to "gadding about." They made periodic visits to family con- 
nections and were always "at home" to their friends. Between 
Aunt Nancy's tempting array of "good things" and Uncle ( )r- 
man's vivacious conversation it was always a capital place for 
a dav's visit. 



BELINDA DEAN AUSTIN. 

Of all the children of William and Parthena Dean none were 
more lovable than this, their youngest born. She did not 
come into the household until a few months after Orpha had 
left it to found a home of her own. She grew up tall, slender, 
queenly in bearing with dark hair and large lustrous dark eyes. 
As she was to marry a doctor she was given a better educa- 
tion than the older members of the family. For some vears 



I>l \N HISTORY. 

she attended Farmington Seminary and a Ladies' Seminary at 
Libenville. Endowed with an active mind she made an ex- 
cellent use <>t' her opportunities, acquiring unusual culture for 
the times. In [840 she was married to Dr. Benajah Austin 
and began her wedded life in Warren. Dr. Austin was a 
man of fine intelligence, refined in nature and deeply religious; 
but he lacked the physical vitality for large success! 
\1»< mt [840 they bought the old Dean household and went to 
care for grandfather Dean. The) remained for some years 
after his death in [847, subsequently living in Braceville and 
finally in Warren where the doctor died in 1S71 in his 58th 
year. Never very strong, frequent severe illnesses undermined 
her constitution, and she passed away in Canfield in [878. 
From the time of her own birth in [817 her death was the 
first break in the circle of six brothers and sisters. Aunt Be- 
linda lacked the large force and practical energy of Aunt Or- 
pha ; but few women surpassed her in a certain social charm. 
To a deep religious nature she added a cheerfulness rising 
almost into gayety which life's long discipline could not 
quench. To die last she loved young people; and with beau- 
tiful and tender affection they reciprocated the interest she felt 
in them. Her ashes repose in the cemetery across the way 
from the home of her birth, her maidenhood and her mature 
wi >manho< id. 



REBl CCA />/ IV WILLIAMS. 

Rebecca was the child of William Dean's old age, being 
born Dec. 11. [841. Left motherless almost at birth, she found 
home and motherly care with Uncle Bailey and Aunt Phoebe. 
She L;rew up a bright, impulsive and somewhat erratic girl. 
\t the earl) age of seventeen she was married to her neighb ir, 
Ifenrv Williams. b\ whom sin- hail two children, a little girl 
who died when hardly out of babyhood and a bov who grew 
oung manhood, but is probably not living. Life did not 
run smoothly with Henry and Rebecca and they separated. 



LIFE IN OHIO. 29 

He is living in one of the Pacific States. The last known of 
her she was in Denver, Col. She has probably been dead for 
some vears. 



SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 
DEANS. 

The six Dean brothers and sisters were tall spare people, 
Bailey being the tallest and Orsemus the shortest of the broth- 
ers. In complexion Hiram and Orman most resembled their 
father, both having grey eyes, Hiram having light brown hair, 
( )rman's hair being nearly black, thick and dark till his death. 
The others resembled their mother, eyes and hair being dark 
brown or black. In a certain sparkling social quality Bailey 
and Belinda were most conspicuous, though all, save perhaps 
Uncle Hiram, were good conversers. Orman was the most 
variable in his moods, now on the mountain top, now inclined 
to look on the dark side, or, as he used to say, to "get the 
hypo." 

In politics William Dean and his sons were old line Whigs ; 
later they became Free Soil Democrats. After the organization 
of that party in 1856 the brothers became staunch Republi- 
cans. All of them were strong anti-slavery men. Two, at 
least, of the family connection, Orsemus and Rhoda, took part 
in a famous anti-slavery meeting. Rev. M. R. Robinson came 
to Canfield to give an anti-slavery lecture and was treated by 
roughs to a shower of rotten eggs, which his son warded off 
with an umbrella. A crowd was waiting outside to give him 
a coat of tar and feathers. A double circle of men and women 
conducted him from the church to his carriage. The crowd 
broke through the outer circle of men, but the circle of women 
held together and the mob was cheated of their prey. 

Never did a group of brothers and sisters get on more har- 
moniously together. My father once said that he never had any 
trouble with Hiram but once. Hiram wanted to pay him for 
the use of his oxen and he wouldn't take pay. 

In religious affiliations all were steadfast Disciples and the 



DE AN H 1STO R Y . 

religious spirit has perpetuated itself to a remakable degree in 
all branches of the family. This is especially noteworthy in 
the famih of < (rsemus Dean, all of whose nine children and 
twenty-two grandchildren became Disciples in their teens and 
have been active Christian workers wherever they have re- 
d. The brothers were not regarded as muscular or robust 
men; but the} illustrate the fact that labor conduces to Ion 
gevit\ when combined with temperance and a moral life. I he\ 
attained the- ages respectively of So. S3, Si and 76. 

More than thirty of William Dean's descendants, including 
four of his children, have been teachers, some of them for 
many years. While none of the family have risen to world- 
wide eminence, it is a satisfaction to believe that l>r. Jackson 
[Yuesdale, in one of his historical sketches of Early Canfield 
History, wrote the simple truth: "Seldom have we families 
vhere so many ( >t its members exercised so good and whole- 
some an influence upon society as that of William Dean." 



THOMAS TO WILLIAM DEAN. .!1 



GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THOMAS DANE OR 

DEAN. 

t. Thomas Dane (or Dean); b. ab. 1603 probably some- 
where in Co. Kent, England ; d. Feb. 5, 1675-6 at Concord, 
Mass. His wife was Elizabeth , 1645-8. His wife Mil- 
dred d. Sept. 13, 1673. 

CHILDREN. 

2. Joseph 2 , b. ab. 1638, d. Mar. 13. 1 717-18, aged 80, at Concord. 

He m. Nov. 26, 1662, Elizabeth Fuller, dau. Lieut. Thos. Ful- 
ler, made freeman 1672. See Fuller gen. 

3. Sarah 2 , m. June 10. 1661, John Heald, Concord. 

4. Mary 2 (perhaps dau.), b. Feb. 24, 1642-3; m. Mar. 5 Thos. Pel- 

lett. A Thos. Pellett and Joseph Dean lived together at Con- 
cord. 

5. Hannah 2 , b. Mar. 8. 1645-6; m. Mr. Page (Samuel? [see Bond's 

Watertown] ) . 

6. Elizabeth 2 , b. Oct. 25. 1648, d. Apr. 4, 1649. 

2. Joseph 2 (Dane or Dean) and Elizabeth Fuller. 

CHILDREN. 

7. Thomas 3 , b. Sept. 16, 1664, at Concord; d. ab. 1730 at Danbury, 
Ct. (time and place that will was probated) ; was of Concord 
till 1696, at Charlestown 1697, at Plymouth 1700, at Pembroke, 
Mass., 1701-10. He m. at Concord 1st August 22, 1687, Sarah 
Blanchard, dau. of George 2 Blanchard (of Thos. 1 ) of Charles- 
town ; m. 2d Feb. 9. 1697, Susannah Davis of Boston (at 
Concord). Rev. Joseph Estabrook, minister at Concord, per- 
formed ceremony both times. 

8. Joseph 3 , b. Apr. 5, 1667. 

9. Daniel 3 , b. Apr. 29, 1669, m. Sarah . 

10. Elizabeth 3 , b. Aug. 4, 1671, at Concord; m. — Walker. 

11. Sarah 3 , b. Aug. 4, 1675. 

12. Deborah 3 , b. Sept. 28, 1678. 

13. Hannah 3 , b. Nov. 3, 1682. 

14. Benjamin 3 , m. by Justice Minott, Sept. II, 1707. to Sarah Cole- 

burn. 



.:■_' 



1)1 A.N HISTORY. 



3. Sarah" Dane and John Heald. 

.nil DRI S 

15. J0I111 . Ii. Sept. 19, 1666. 

Gersham 3 , b. Mar. 1. 1667-8 (or 1688-9). 

17 Eunice', b. May [9. [673 

18 Sarah . b. Dec. 18, 1670 
Hi. I [anna 3 , I). < >ct. 16, 1676. 

jo. Dorothy 3 (perhaps dan. t. b. May 10. n>7') 



4. Mary 2 Dane and Tims. Pellett. 

villi DREW 



_'l 



Mary . b. Aug. 17. 1662. 
Tin una- . b. Apr. [8, [666 
23. I )aniel . b. Aug. 1. [668. 
J4. Samuel 3 , b. Mar. 28, 1671. 
25. Richard . b. Apr. 23, [673. 

b. \' \ 9, [675. 
27. Jonathan 3 , d. Jan. 6, [691. 

28 Elizabeth 3 , dau. of Mary, widow, d. Jan. 3, [704-5. Thos. Pel- 
husband of Mary", d. Dec. 1, [644. Name of Pellett said 
to be extinct . 



7. Thomas (Dane and Dean), by tst wife Sarah Blanchard. 

C H 1 1 D 

29 Mary 4 , l>. June 28, [688, at Concord. 

Sarah', b. Apr. 23, ■ nl ; in. at Pembroke, Mass., 

June 3, 1713. James Thi impsi m, 

31. Elizabeth 4 , b. [692. 

32. Rachel 4 , b. Apr 29, ii»m 

33. Tin una-', b. Nov. _'.;. i<*><> (tl ler died Dec. 1 >. 
7. Thomas b) 2d wife Susannah Davis. 

34. Reuben 4 , b. Nov. 4. 1701, at Pembroke, d. — . [790, at Corn- 

wall. Ct. Lived at Danbury, Ct., ami probably at Norwalk, 
and was at Cornwall early a- 1740 lie in. Ann Carter (by 
traditii ■ 

35. Susannah 4 , b. July 30, 1705,31 Pembi 

I )aniel 4 , 1>. Apr. ;•,<>. 1 710. at Pembn ike 



*This date does ii"t harmonize with inscription on tombstone. See 

P " 



THOMAS TO WILLIAM DEAN. 33 

9. Daniel' (of Joseph", Thos. 1 ) and Sarah. 

CHILDREN. 

37. Thomas 4 , b. June 23, 1717. 

14. Benjamin 3 (Dane, of Joseph 2 , Thos. 1 ) and Sarah Cole- 
burn. 

CHILDREN. 

, 38. Elizabeth 4 , b. Sept. 2, 1708. 

34. Reuben 4 (of Thos. 3 , Joseph 2 , Thos. 1 ) and Ann Car- 
ter (■?). 

CHILDREN. 

39. Thomas, b. about 1730, d. in Cornwall Mar. 9, 1807; m., 1st, 

Oct. 23, 1753, Martha Carter; d. Aug. 5, 1774; m., 2nd, April 
23, 1776, Olive Willoughby. 

40. Benjamin 5 , b. May, 1734 (in N. Eng. Gen. Register). Tomb- 

stone at Canfield, O., has: d. Aug. 13, 1815, in his 76th year. 

He m. Oct. 14 1762, Ruth Tanner, b. , d. May 11, 1812, 

at Canfield, O. She was dau. of Thos. Tanner, Sr., of Corn- 
wall, Ct., b. in Rhode Island ab. 1705. 

41. Joseph 5 , m. Sarah Campbell Dec. 18, 1754, Cornwall. 

42. Moses 5 , m. Hannah Tanner (dau. Thomas, Sr., of Cornwall), 

May 17, 1757. 

43. Mary 5 , m. Thomas Fleming Aug., 1762, Cornwall. 

44. Samuel 5 (perhaps). A Samuel m. Mrs. Mary Ailing 1737. 

Wife of "Old Samuel Dean," d. 1781, Cornwall. 

45. Susannah 5 , m. Edward Bumpus Mar. 8, 1758, Cornwall. 

46. Stephen (?) 5 . 

47. Elizabeth (?) 5 . 

48. Martha 5 . A Martha m. Elisha Dickenson Dec. 19, 1756; she d. 

Apr. 10, 1789. 

39. Thomas 6 . 

CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE MARTHA CARTER. 

49. Thomas 6 , b. June 23, 1754, d. Sept. 14, 1775. 

50. Reuben' 1 (Jr.), b. Aug. 29, 1757, d. Apr. 8, 1831 ; m. Lucretia 



34 DEAN HISTORY. 

Francis Dec u, 1783; she d. Sept. 15, 1853. Served in Rev. 
War at Valley F< irge 

51. Martha", b. Sept. i), 1759, d. Dec 13. 1843, Canfield; m. Oct. — , 

1783, William Chidester, Cornwall; removed to O. 1802. 

52. Samuel 8 (Jrj, b Nov. 2, 1761. 

53. Ebenezer*, b. Mar. 24. 17')}. d. Mar. 8, [833 

54. Josiah 8 , b. Mar. jj, i;< 
??. Aaron 8 , Ma) 1, 1768. 

CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE, OLIVE tt ILLOUG II VA (PERHAPS). 

56. Rhoda 8 , 111. Samuel Pratt. 

57. Thomas 8 , lived in New Haven. 

42. Moses' and Hannah Tanner. 

C HILDREN. 

58 Ezra 8 , b. Jan. 3, '75* 

59. Benjamin'', 1>. Nov. 29, [760. 

60. Ashbel 8 , 1). May 18, [763. 

43. Samuel 11 (?) (of Reuben 4 ). 

SAMUEL AND SARAH HAD: 

61. Samuel", 1). 174'. 

62. Josiah, h. Feb. 28, 174 s 9 

SAM L'EL AND MARY HAH : 

63. Thankful, b. Feb. 3, 1764, (d. 1781 ?). 
Submit, b. Mar. II, 17 

(Fragments from Cornwall records) 

40. Benjamin 8 and Ruth Tanner. 

CHILDREN. 

65, Ruth 8 , !■ Jul) 6, [763, d. - , North Royalton, O. : m. Jonathan 

Eastman 3 (Jonathan 4 , Roger 3 , John 2 , Roger 1 ) b. 1753, d. Bris- 
tol, \ t . l8l6. She removed tO l82g 

66. Daniel, b. Mar. 31. 1705; d. Mar 6, [836, at Wadsworth, 0.; 

m. Mary Field in Vt. ; removed to in 1814; buill firs) h 

in Wadsworth, < > ,; was ordained Baptist preacher later in life. 

67 Rachel", b Feb. 2, 1766, Cornwall; d. Aug, 19, 1854, Canfield, 

in l).r j). 1789, David Have-. He (1. May 12, 1847, ae. 

79, at Canfield Came to Ohio from Bennington, \'t . [812. 
68. James 8 , b. Oct. 17, 1768, d , ; m. Sarah Bennet Rates, 

b. July n;, 1775. Went to Vermont (family tradition). 
69 Martha", b. Dec to, 1770. Cornwall; d. ah. 1811; m. Aug. 23, 

1795, at Cornwall. Truman Parmley. 



THOMAS TO WILLIAM DEAN. 35 

70. William", b. May 10, 1774, Cornwall, Ct. ; d. .Mar. 17, 1847, Can- 

field, O. ; m. 1st, Aug. 29, 1796, at Cornwall, Parthena Bailey, 
dau. William Bailey. She b. , 1772; d. Sept. 13, 1836, Can- 
field; m. 2nd, Mrs. Rebecca (Rumsey) Mulner, Mar. 26, 1837. 
She d. Jan. 3, 1842; m. 3rd, Mrs. Ada (- -) Pearce, of 
Lordstown, O. No. ch by last. Removed to Canfield, O., 
1810, from Cornwall, Ct. 

71. Joseph , b. June 10, 1779; d. , , Sharon, O. Removed, 

1st, to Vermont, thence to O. Served in war 1812. 

50. Reuben 6 (Jr.) (of Thomas 5 , Reuben 4 ) and Lucretia 
Francis. 

CHILDREN. 

Josiah 7 , b. Jan. 3, 1785. 
Stephen 7 , b. May 3, 1788; d. Oct. 22, 1838. 
Lucinda 7 , joined church Sept. 27, 1812; d. unm. Nov. 20, 1875. 
Lucretia 7 , joined church Sept. 27, 1812; d. unm. Nov. 22, 
1875.* 

51. Martha 8 (of Thomas 5 , Reuben 4 , etc.) and William Chid- 
ester. 

CHILDREN. 

!T 7 , I Munson, 

Valorus, \ AI ' 

S Mason, 
Rush (d. unm.). 

Philo 7 , 

Erastus 7 , Erastus ; m. Lydia Sackett, moved to Iowa. 

Elizabeth 7 . 

William Rush 7 . 

Julius 7 . 

Valorus 7 . 

Royal Canfield 7 . 

Chloe 7 , m. Walter Smith, of Ellsworth.f 
65. Ruth 8 (of Benjamin 8 , Reuben 4 , etc.) and Jonathan East- 
man. In the early days, the Deans of Canfield made yearly 
visits to the Eastman's. 

CHILDREN. 

Sarah 7 , m. Sawyer ; removed to O. 

Jonathan 7 , b. Vergennes, Vt. ; d. Ellsworth, O. ; m. Margaret 
Truesdaie. 



* Lucinda and Lucretia were twins. They were buried the same 
day. The minister, by a slip of the tongue, referred to the two sisters 
as the "two aged sinners." — From letter of Rev. E. C. Starr, Cornwall, 
Conn. 

t See appendix for additional genealogies. 



HI AN HISTORY. 

William Dean 7 , b. Bristol, Vt., Sept. n. 1707; d. 1854 North 
ilton, 0. ; m. 1823, Lois Harvey, b. Whitehall, N. V.. 1800, 
(dan Moses and Deborah (Standish) Harvey). Removed to 
North Royalton, spring [8: 

Almon 7 , b. Sept. 28, [800; d [884, Dundee, Wis.; m. Deborah 
Searles. Removed to Wis 1846 
Ira 7 , d. ab. 1835; m. Sally Foote. 

67. Daniel" (of Benjamin", Reuben 4 ) and Mary Field. 

CHU DREN. 

Benjamin 7 , b. Aug. 1, [797, Bristol, Vt. ; d. Oct. 11, 1874, 
Blairstown, la.: in. rst, Julia Phelps; _>d, Harriet Fairchild, 
of Sharon, 0. Cut tir>t tree in Wadsworth, 1814. Taught 
school. Removed to la [864 
Daniel 1 (Jr.), b. [799; d. [823, Wadsworth. 

■ , went to Dixon, 111. 
Moses 7 , iu. Harriet Hosford ; d. in Iowa. 
Salmon 7 , went to Iowa. 
William 7 , d. in [1 wa. 
Polly 7 , d. in Wadsworth. 1824. 
Ruth', in I 1 Hridley; d. in Wadsworth. 

68. Rachel and I )avid I la\ es. 

CHILDREN. 

Orlando 7 . 

Nathaniel 7 . 

James Dean 7 . 

Huldah 7 , 111. John Stewart, of North Royalton 

Ede 7 , m. Simmons Sackett. 

Rutlr. in Ezra Lei mard. 

Rachel 7 , m. John Flick. 

69. James' and Sara!i Bennel Bates. 

< Mil DREN. 

Clarissa 7 , m. I lenry I 'aimer 

William 7 , has descendants in Vt . probably. 

Erastus 7 , m. Sarah Coleman; removed to Emerald Grove, 

Wis., 1851. 

Bennet Bates 7 , m. Electa Shaw. 



THOMAS TO WILLIAM DEAN. 37 

70. Martha 8 and Truman Parmley. 

CHILDREN. 

Augustus 7 , m. Sylvia Miller. 

Electa 7 . 

Lucinda 7 , m. Stewart. 

71. William 6 and Parthena Bailey. See second section on 
Wm. Dean and descendants. 

J2.. Joseph 6 and . 



CHILDREN. 

Orson 7 . 

Polly 7 , m. Bascom. 

John 7 . 

Miranda 7 , has descendants in Ashtabula county. 

Jonathan 7 (Eastman) (of Ruth Dean Eastman) and Mar- 
garet Truesdale. 

CHILDREN. 

William 8 , b. 1825. 

James 8 . 

Sarah 8 , b. 1829; m. Geo. Kelly; no eh. 

Almon 8 , b. 183 1 ; m. Maria Flick. 

John 8 , b. 1835. 

Joseph 8 , b. 1833. 

Melissa, m. David Hayes. 

William Dean '(Eastman) and Lois Harvey. 

CHILDREN. 

Rollin Charles 8 , b. 1825, Rutland, Vt. ; m. Caroline Searles. 

Electa 8 , b. 1829; d. 1854; m. Julius Damon. 

Deborah Ann 8 , b. 1831 ; m. Solomon Searles. She resides at 

Kipton, O. 

William Harvey 8 , b. 1836; m. 1st, Sarah Redrup, who d. 1875; 

m. 2nd, in Cleveland, Sarah Palmer. Resides in Glenville, O. 

daughter, Linda A., asst. librarian, Cleveland Public Library. 

Belinda 8 , b. 1840; d. in Georgia; m. William Tumpkins. 

Esther 8 , b. 1844; d. in Cleveland, O. ; m. Cyru< Thomas, 1865. 



Hi \\ HISTORY. 

Almon' (Eastman) and Deborah Searles. 

CHILDREN. 

Sarah Maria 9 , b. 1S31, North Royalton. 

Julius Jonathan", b. [833; m. Antoinette Nicholson. 

Darwin Ambrose 8 , b. [836; d. [85] 

("liarles Eugene*, b. [838; m. Louisa Ricket>. Enlisted, fall 

of [864 ; (1. in hospital. 

Julia Ann 8 , 1). 1S40. 

Mary Ann 8 , b. 1841; m. Martin (1 Lee. Res. in Barry, 111. 

X11 ch. 

Martha Celesta 8 , b. 1845: '1- 1886. 

Benjamin 7 (of Daniel". IkMijamin 5 , Reuben 4 ). 

CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE, JULIA PHELPS. 

Amos 8 , was county superintendent of schools at Blairstown, la. 
Frederic G. 8 , b. Mar. 1. 1834; d. (of wounds). May 17, 1862, 
at Quincy, 111. Member of Co. G, 13th Reg., la. V. I. 
Stowel] G. 8 , 1) Oct 30, [838; (1. Camp Dennison, May 6, 1862; 
member Co. ( i. [3th la. V. 1. 
I liena 8 . 
Emily 8 . 

CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE, HARRIET FAIRCHILD 

1 [arvey 8 

( '• r\ d( >n\ 

Ede Hayes 1 and Simmons Sackett. 

ciiii 1 

Alzerah 8 , b. June 29, 1816; d. Oct, 10, 1869; m. Sarah A. liar 
baugh. 

ey 8 , b Feb, 3, 1818; d. Sepl 28, 1828 
Clarinda 8 , 1.. May 1. 1820; m. Clark Chidester. 
David 8 , b May 11, [822; d Jan 20, [899; m. Sarah Header. 
Eldridge, b. Nov. 2, 1824; d Dec 16, 1824 
Freeman, 1> Nov. 2. 1825; in. Lois I. Scott. 
Justus, b. June 5, 1828; d. March [3, [893 
Bel 1 y, h Sept. t,, 1830. 
Benjamin, 1>. Aug 1. 1833; d. March 1, 1836 
A' lisah, b. Jan. 1'). [836 
Huldah, b. July 11, 1838; m, Rev. S B Ri 
Simmi Tis, I. July 28, 1 •■ 



THOMAS TO WILLIAM DEAN. 39 

James Dean 7 (Hayes) (of Ruth Dean [Hayes] and Eliza 
Rummage. 

CHILDREN. 

David 8 . 
Leander 8 . 

James Dean (Hayes) and 2nd wife, Mary Quackinbush. 

CHILDREN. 

Milo. 

Eliza. 

Lucy. 

John. 

Ruby. 

Lincoln, Etc. 

Huldah 7 (Hayes) and John Stewart. 

CHILDREN. 

John 8 . 
Phebe 9 . 

Rachel 7 (Hayes) and John Flick. 

CHILDREN. 

Robinson Young 8 , m. Prudence Allen, ch. Ella ; m. Bing- 
ham, of Ellsworth. Russell, (of Jackson) has: Icy and Jay. 
John, of Canfield. 

Maria 8 , m. Almon Eastman. Have ch.* 
Ornha 8 , m. Andrew Harrofr. Have ch* 
*See appendix B. 



DEAN HISTORY, 



GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF WILLIAM DEAN'S 

DESCENDANTS. 

i. William Dean, miller and farmer, b. in Cornwall, Litch- 
field county, Conn., Maj to, \~~ \. <\. in Canfield, Mahoning Co., 
I »., March 17. 1847; m. [st , Aug. 25, [796, to Parthena Bailey, 
b. in Sharon, Conn., [773, d. in Canfield, Sept. [3, [836; m. 2nd 
March 26, [837, to Mrs. Rebecca [Rumsey] Mulner, b. - — , 
180S. d. in 1 '.inii.ld. Jan. 3, [842 ; m. 3rd, 1 tec. 29, [842, to Mrs. 
Ada Pearce, 1). — . <1. in Lordstown, about t88i. 

Explanatory Note The table 1- arranged in order of generations: 
children, grandchildren, etc. lhe figures at the left constitute a con 
tinuous numbering from William Dean, No. 1. to Jean Paul Leib, No. 
Tin- small figures at the right and above the names indicate the 
generation. Whenever the State 1- omitted, nine is to be understood. 

1. Children of William Lean' and Parthena Bailey. 

Orpha Mean", l> in Cornwall, Conn.. July 17, 1797; d. in War- 
ren, Feb. 20, 1882; in. m Canfield, April 16, 1S17. to Myron 
Sackett, fanner, b. in Warren. Litchfield Co., Conn., Feb. 13, 

17X7 ; el. in ( antield. No\ .8, [849 
3 Hiram Mean", tanner: 1). in Cornwall, Conn.. April 30, 1700; d 
in Canfield, Sept. 22, [885; m. March 22, iSji. to Rheuby 
Mason; b. in Cazenovia, N. Y. Sept. 8, 1800; d. in Canfield, 
Dec it. [887. 
I Orsemus Mean - ', fanner; b. in Cornwall, Conn., Ulg 11. 1801 ; 
d. in Center, Rock Co., Wis., Nov. 17. 1884. I Mure is an 
• of a year in the date of his death on his tombstone in 
tei ;) m. April 20, 1825, to Rhoda Hayden; b. in Youngs- 



*The name of William Dean's wife is not spelled uniformly in rec 
ords and legal documents, sometimes being Parthena and sometimes 
Perthena. I here 1- the same variation in the name among the descend- 
ants I have uniformly adopted the form Parthena as being the original 
and truer spelling. 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 41 

town, May 25, 1808; d. in Center, Wis., Jan. 22, 1878. 
5. James Dean", b. in Cornwall, Conn., Jan. , 1804; d. in Corn- 
wall. 

6. Benjamin Dean 2 , b. in Cornwall, Conn., June 8, 1807; d. in Can- 

field, July 17, 1813. 

7. William Bailey Dean 2 , b. in Cornwall, Conn., May 7, 1810; d. 

in Ellsworth, July 5, 1891 ; m. April 3, 1833, to Phoebe Diehl ; 

1). in Bedford Co., Pa., May 4, 1808; d. in Ellsworth, May 

20, 1880. 
8. Orman Dean 2 , farmer; 1). in Canfield, Feb. 13, 1813; d. in Lords- 
town, May 5, 1889- m. April 1,1835, to Nancy Williams; b. 

in Cumberland Valley, Pa., July 22, 1816; d. in Lordstown, 

July 24, 1896. 
9. Belinda Dean 2 , b. in Canfield, Oct. 31, 1817; d. in Canfield, Dec. 

15, 1878; m. Oct. 7, 1840, to Benajah Austin; b. in Warren, 

April 2, 1814; d. in Warren, May 25, 1871. 



I. Children of William Dean 1 and Rebecca Mulner. 

10. Rachel Dean 2 , b. in Canfield, , 1837; d. Dec. 4. 1837. 

11. Rebecca Dean 2 , b. in Canfield, Dec. I, 1841; d. (?) , 

m. Dec. 20, 1858, to Henry Williams, of Ellsworth. 



2. Children of Orpha Dean 2 and Myron Sackett. 

12. Ward Eldred Sackett", farmer; b. in Canfield, April 21, 1818; 

d. in Southington, Sept. 7, 1842; m. April 22, 1840, to Fidelia 
T. Turner; b. in Canfield, March 11, 1820; d. in Canfield, 
May 23, 1888. 

13. Sarah Parthena Sackett 1 , b. in Canfield, May 14, 1820; d. in 

Youngstown, Jan. 24, 1883; m. April 23, 1840, to Enos Austin, 
farmer; b. in Warren, July 7, 1809; d. in Youngstown, Jan. 
16, 1886. 

14. Minerva Sackett'', b. in Canfield, April 3, 1823; d. in Warren, 

O., Oct. 7, 1898; m. Jan. 11, 1848 to Harmon Austin,* far- 
mer and manufacturer, b. in Warren July 27, 1817, d. in 
Warren, Nov. 6, 1893. 

15. Harriet Sackett 3 , b. in Canfield, June 4, 1825; d. in Boardman, 

Dec. 19, 1855; m. April 6, 1848. to Charles Reed Turner, mer- 
chant; b. in Canfield, May 24, 1824; d. in Warren, Sept. 26, 
1874. 



*The youngest daughter of William Dean and the two oldest 
daughters of Orpha Dean Sackett married brothers. 



42 Dl AN HISTORY. 

[6 Oliver Patch Sacketl . b. in Canfield, Jan. [9, [828; in. [St, Jan. 
22, 1856, in Elsie Turner; I), in Copley, — , - ; <1. in Cop- 
It \. \ 1 • 1 1 1 27, 1871 : in . 2nd, May 1, 1873, to Mary E. Stearns; 
b. — . - ; (1. Nov. 1. [886, in Cameron, Mo. 

[7 Charlotte Maria Sackett. retired teacher; b. in Canfield, June 
[6, [830; rev Warren. 

18 Mary Melissa Sackett 3 , b in Canfield, Dee. 7. 1833; d. in La 
Grange, Ind., Aug. 5, [890; m. Feb. -'4. iS;.^. to Dr. Aquila 
Briscoe; b. in Loudon Co., Va., March 1. 1S1S; d. in La 
Grange, lnd.. Aug. 14. [874. 

[9 Flora Jane Sackett 3 , b. in Canfield, Nov. 29, [836; d. in Daven- 
port, la., June 6, 1S7S; in. Sept. [9, 1N57. to Charles Reed Tur- 
ner ; 1). and d. as above. 
20 Olive Amelia Sackett 3 , b in Canfield, Jan. 15, 1841; d. in 

( 'antield, Sept. 8, [842. 

3. Children of Hiram Dean 2 and Rheuby Mason. 

21. Austin Dean 3 , fanner; b. in (antield, Aug. 9, [822; d. in 
Mecca, May 22, 1859; in. Jan 1. [850, to Jemima Rowlee; b. 
in - — , - , March (. [830; in. 2nd, William Quiggle; her 
presenl res , ( 'antield. 
Mason \l>ner Mian, tanner; b in ('antield, Sept. _>5. [824; d. 
in Mecca, April 5, 1898; in. Jan. 1. [849, to Elizabeth L. Dav 
idson ; b. Jan 20, 1827; res. Mecca. 

23. Priscilla Dean 3 , b. in ('antield. Aug. 18, [829; d. in Canfield, 
Sept. 4, [872; m. March 22, 1N51, to Valorus Chidester, car- 
penter and farmer: b. in ('antield, July u. [823; d. in Can 
field, April 29, [888. 

24 Benjamin Dean 3 , fanner; b. in Canfield, March i_\ [831; en- 
listed in Co. II. [05th Reg., Vol. Infantry; d. in camp at 
Murfreesboro, Tenn., May 13, [863 

25. Mary Parthena I 'can . b. in ('antield, April 15, [833; m Sepl 

26, [854, to Almus Beardsley, farmer, Canfield; b. in Can- 
field, Jan. 2, [829 

26. William Mean. b. in ('antield, Aug. 17. [836; d. in (.'antield, 

17. 1837. 

27. Minerva Mean. b. in Canfield, June 21, [842; d. in Canfield, 

Sep; 21, [843. 

4. Children of Orsemus Dean* and Rhoda Hayden. 

28. Sophia Jam- Dean 3 , b. in Canfield, April [8, tSjti; d. in Can- 

field, July to, 1852; in. June 26, 1849, i" Corydon Waitley; b. 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 43 

29. Parthena Dean 3 , b. in Canfield, July 21, [827; d. in Canfield, 

May 10, 1829. 

30. Lucy Esther Dean'', b. in Canfield. May 13, 1829; m. Dec. 21, 

1847, to Russell Parmley; b. in Canfield, April _><>, 1X24; d. in 
Hebron, Neb., June 23, 1893. 

31. James Dean 3 , b. in Canfield, March 17, 1831 ; d. in Canfield, 

May 24, 1833. 

32. Orpha Parthena Dean 1 , b. in Canfield, Nov. 18, 1832; m. Sept. 

5, 1858, to Eben Hathorn, farmer; b. in Keene, N. H., June 
7, 1816; d. in Janesville, Wis., Oct. 15, 1900; her res., Mason 
City, la. 

^- William Hayden Dean 3 , farmer; b. in Canfield, Oct. 12, 1834; 
d. in Center, Wis., Oct. 10, 1897; m - Ist . March 31, 1859, to 
Martha Jane Taylor; b. in Cortland, N. Y., May 1, 1836; d. 
in Center, Wis., Aug. 3, 1867; m. 2nd, March 14. 1869, to 
Kate Snyder; b. in Marion Co.. Ind., March II, 1842; res. 
Footville, Wis. 

34. Samuel Gray Dean 3 , farmer; b. in Ellsworth, June 29. 1836; 
d. in Newton Falls, Jan. 24, 1864; m. Oct. 7, 1862, to Rachel 
Woodward; b. in Lordstown, Oct. 24, 1834; res. Lordstown. 

35. A son 3 , b. Ellsworth, March 4, 1838; d. March 4. 1838 (lived 

two hours). 

36. Rheuby Dean 3 , b. March 4, 1838; d. April 2, 1838. 

37. Belinda Aurelia Dean 3 , b. in Ellsworth, Sept. 22, 1839; m. Sept. 

6, 1862, to Laban Fisher, retired farmer, Janesville, Wis.; b. 
in East Fairfield. June 19. 1839; served Nov. I, 1861, to May 
14. 1862, in Co. B, 16th Ind. Vol. Infantry, and Aug. 15, 1862, 
to Aug. 9, 1865, in Co. F, 33rd Wis. Vol. Infantry. 

38. Rosa Ann Dean', b. in Ellsworth, April 8, 1843; m. Dec. 21, 

1867, in Center, Wis., to John Musgrave Wray. farmer. Mc- 
Guffey, b. in Wis., Jan. 20, 1847; served from Aug. 15, 
1862, to Aug. 15, 1865, in Co. F, 33rd Wis. Vol. Infantry. 

39. Bailey Sutton Dean 3 , minister, and professor of history in 

Hiram college, Hiram; b. in Ellsworth, Jan. 5, 1845; m. June 
14. 1869. to Emma Lydia Johnson; b. in Middlefield, July 13. 
1 841. 

40. Silas Austin Dean', retired farmer, Chicago, 111.; b. in Ells- 

worth, April 25, 1848; m. June 13, 1875. to Sarah Elizabeth 
Snyder; 1). in Marion Co.. Ind., June 3. '< s 45- 

7. Children of William Bailey Dean 2 and Phoebe Diehl. 

41. Ward Dean 3 , farmer, Ellsworth; b. in Ellsworth. Jan. iS. 1834; 

m. May 26, 1855, to Eliza McNeeley; b. in Ellsworth, Oct. 15, 

1835; d. in Ellsworth, March 10. 1897. 



41 DEAN HISTORY. 

Children oi < Irman Dean 2 and Nancy Williams. 

42 Walter Scotl Dean", farmer; b. in Champion, March 17. 1836; 

(I. in Lordstown, May 17, [901 ; 111. May 29, [868, to Mary 
Jane Preston ; b. in Lordstown, Jan. 31, 1 S 1 _• ; res. Lords- 
town. 

43 Drnsilla Rebecca Dean 3 , 1>. in Lordstown, Jan. 31, [842; d. in 

Lordstown, Sept. 10. [860. 

44 Mary Augusta Dean", b. in Lordstown, March [8, [850; d. in 

Lordstown, Sept. 26, [884; 111. April 8, [873, to George 
Shively, farmer, Lordstown; b. in Austintown, Any. 28, [841. 

9. Children of Belinda I 'ran' anil Benajah Austin. 

45. Emilv Amelia Austin, b. in Warren, Sept. 28, 1842; m Sept. 

29, [878, to Newton Gregg, farmer, Hillsdale, Mich.; b. in 

Washington Co., Pa., April 1. [836. 
l'> Frances Parthena Austin 3 , 1>. in Canfield, April 6, [847; m. 

May 17. 1N71, to Henry Ozias Allyn, farmer, Garrettsville ; 

b. m 1 1 iram, July 6, 1845. 

47. Hiram William Austin 3 , surgeon U. S. naval station, Detroit, 

Mich.; I), in Canfield, June _>. 1X41;; m. Dec. 25, 1S7S. to Mary 
mdler; b. in Evansville, Intl.. Feb. 26, [852. 

48. Flora Ellen Austin 3 , !>. in Canfield, Feb. t6, 1853; 111. July 30, 

[900, to J. ('. Kerley, journalist. Republic, Wash.; b. Aug. 
13, "840. 

49. Homer Austin 3 , b. in Warren, O., Oct. 12, [855; d. 111 Warren. 

May in, [862 

50. Minerva Sacketl Austin 3 , b in Warren. Aug. 8, [86] ; m. Nov. 

21, [86i t" Alva Graves, music teacher. Charlotte, Mich.; 
I), in Washington Co., Pa., April 1. 1836. 

u. Children of Rebecca Dean 5 and Henry Williams. 

;i Elizabeth Williams 3 , b. in Champion. April, [860; d. in , 

, [862. 

52. James Williams 3 , b. in Sandusky, Sept. i ?), [862. 

u. Children of Ward E. Sackett and Fidelia T. Turner. 

53. Myron Ward Sackett', supreme recorder of Ancient Order of 

I mod Workmen, Meadville, Pa.; b. in Southington, Oct. 24, 

1841 ; m. Vug. 15. [866, to Sarah Varian Barber; b. in -, 

Nov, 7. 1 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 45 

13. Children of Sarah P. Sackett 3 and Enos Austin. 

54. Fidelia Teresa Austin', b. in Canfield, June 12, 1847; m. Sept. 

10, 1868, to Frank Stiles, weighmaster Carnegie Steel Co., 
Youngstowri; 1). in Weymouth, Sept. 3, 1841. 

55. Charlotte Minerva Austin 4 , b. in Newton Falls, Sept. 15, 1854; 

m. Aug. 25, 1886, to Clark Sackett, farmer, Talmadge ; b. in 
Talmadge, May 15, 1837. 

56. Myron B. Austin 4 , b. in Newton Falls, Jan. 24, 185 1 ; d. in 

Newton Falls, Jan 23, 1853. 

14. Children of Minerva Sackett 3 and Harmon Austin. 

57. Benajah Austin 4 , b. in Warren, Feb. 26, 1849; d. in Warren, 

June 13, 1861. 

58. Helen King Austin 4 , b. in Warren, Dec. 15, 1853; m. Jan. 15, 

1880, to William Campbell Pendleton, mechanical engineer, 
Warren ; b. in Bethany, W. Va., May 3, 1849. 

59. Harmon Austin 4 , clerk. Cleveland; b. in Warren, July 6, 1865; 

m. Sept. 3, 1800, to Sally Heaton Woods; b. in Warren, June 
3. 1867. 

60. Mary Sackett Austin 4 , b. in Warren, Dec. 8, 1866; m. July 10, 

1888. to Thomas Ross, wholesale grocer, Cleveland ; b. in 
Portsmouth, April 3, 1863. 

15. Child of Harriet Sackett 1 and Charles R. Turner. 

61. Ward Sackett Turner 4 , b. in Boardman, May 2, 1849; d. in 

Warren, July 17, 1858. 

16. Children of Oliver P. Sackett 3 and Elsie Turner. 

62. Emma Charlotte Sackett 4 , b. in Copley, Nov. 18, 1857 ; d. in 

Copley, Sept. 21. 1858. 

63. Charles Oliver Sackett 4 , farmer, Cameron, Mo. ; b. in Copley, 

June 6, 1859; m. May 7, 1885, to Carrie H. Green; b. near 
Racine, Wis., Aug. 21, i860. 

64. Lelia Luella Sackett 4 , b. in Copley, Nov. 30, 1863; m. Feb. 2,^, 

1888, to William Jasper Todd, Agt. Am. Book Co., Beatrice, 
Neb. ; b. in Stewartsville, Mo., Jan. 26, 1853. 

16. Children of Oliver P. Sackett 3 and Mary E. Stearns. 

65. Harry Evans Sackett 4 , county attorney, Beatrice, Neb. ; b. in 

Warren, Oct. 10, 1874; m. Sept. 27, 1899, to Hermina Rey- 
nolds; b. in Beatrice, Neb.. Jan. 27, 1875. 
66. Charlotte Minerva Sackett 4 , student; b. in Cameron. Mo., Dec. 
27, 1883. 



46 l>! \N HISTORY. 

18. Children of Mary Sackett 3 and Dr. Aquila Briscoe. 

67 Semour C. Briscoe 4 , nurse, La Grange, lnd.; b. in Newton 

Falls, May 28, [854; 111. 1st, March 25, [876, to Clara B. 
Harper; b. - — , - — ; m. 2nd, Dec. i. [886, to Anna Rowe; 
b. m Wolcotville, lnd., Aug. _><>. [860. 

68 Minerva Sackett Briscoe 4 , b. in La Grange, lnd., May 11. [858; 

d. in Youngstown, Oct. 13, 1861 

69. Frank O. Briscoe 4 , b. in Canfield, Feb. 15. [861; drowned in 

Missouri river at Boonville, Mo., April _>S. 1X07. 

70. Harmon Austin Briscoe, tinner, Alma, Mich.; b. in Youngs 

town, July 10, [863; in. Dec. -7. [892, t<> Elnora Ferris; b. in 
Bradford, X. Y.. ];>)\. 27, [862. 

19. Children of Flora J. Sackett and Charles R. Turner. 

71. Harriet Turner*, 1>. in Warren. Sept. [9, 1S5S; .1. in Warren, 

Jan. 25, [859. 

72 Jennie Estella Turner 4 , kindergartner, Cleveland; 1>. in War- 
ren, ( let. _•_'. [860 

7.?. Harriet Sackett Turner 4 , b. in Warren. Aug. 3. [863; m. 
April 25. 1883, ti> Luther Edwards Wetmore, farmer, Can 
field; b. in Canfield, April 3. 184(1. 

21. Children of Austin Mean and [emima Rowlee. 

74. Wallace Elmer Dean', stationary engineer; b. in Mecca. Jan 

5. [852; (1. in Huntsville, Ala.. Aug. S. [899; in. Oct. _•'>, 

[881, to Melvina Elizabeth Hoover; b. in West Salem, Pa., 

Nov. <>. [858; present re-. Fredonia, X, Y 
7 : Charles Watson Dean 4 , 1>. in Mecca. Jan. 14. 1X54; d. in 

imbus, < >.. Sepi. iS, [896 
7'' < harlotte Altha Dean', b. in Mecca. April _•. [856; d. in North 

Jackson, Aug. 1. [899; in. Sept. _'5, [884, to Homer II. Kirk. 

tanner. North Jackson; b. in North Jackson, — , . 

77. William Wakeman Dean 4 , farmer. Burton; b. in Mecca, Nov. 

i_>, [858; in. \)<c iS, [885, to Joicy Mary Heiges; b. in 

Middlefield, Jan. [0, [8( 

22. Child of Mason A. Dean 1>\ adoption. 

! Emma E Dean. b. — , [885; 111. ist, Nov. 22, [876, ti> Leighton 
A. Belden ; b. . d June to, 1887; m. 2nd, Dec 24, 1891, to 
Charles Benton, farmer, Mecca; 1>. Mecca. .| 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 47 

23. Children of Priscilla Dean' and Valorus Chidester. 

78. Flora E. Chidester*. b. in Canfield, March 12, 1853; d. in Can- 

field, March 26, 1863. 

79. Mason Dean Chidester 4 , farmer; b. in Canfield, March 28, 1864; 

d. in Canfield, May 9, 1891 ; m. Sept. 28, 1888. to Minnie 
Ewing; b. in Austintown, Oct. 29, 1867. 

80. Munson Buel Chidester 4 , farmer, Canfield; b. in Canfield, 

March 28, 1864; m. May 10, 1894, to Minnie Ewing Chidester, 
brother's widow. 

81. Rheuby P. Chidester 4 , b. in Canfield, Sept. 4, 1872; m. Oct. 2, 

1890, to Emery Shaffer, farmer, Cortland ; b. -—,-—. 

25. Children of Mary P. Dean 3 and Almus Beardsley. 

82. "Doc" Beardsley. b. in Canfield, March 28, 1856; d. in Can- 

field, Aug. , 1859. 

83. Rheuby Beardsley 4 , b. in Canfield, Jan. 2i, 1858; d. in North 

Jackson, Feb. 14, 1879; m. April 13, 1877, to Ewing Gault, 
North Jackson ; b. in North Jackson, . 

84. Fred Beardsley 4 , b. in Canfield. July 23, i860; d. in Canfield, 

Jan. 23, 1864. 

85. Sarah Beardsley 4 , b. in Canfield, July 14, 18(36; m. April 15, 

1890, to Willis C. Wilson, R. F. D. service, Canfield ; b. in 
, Nov. 13, 1865. 

86. Ensign Newton Beardsley 4 , farmer, Washingtonville ; b. in 

Canfield, Oct. 2, 1873; m. May 6, 1895, to Mary Stewart; b. 
in Franklin Square. July 18, 1876. 

87. Hiram John Beardsley, farmer, Canfield; b. in Canfield, Aug. 

3, 1878; m. June 18, 1903, to Ellen Zieger ; b. in New Mid- 
dletown, Nov. 25, 1881. 

30. Children of Lucy E. Dean 5 and Russell Panuley. 

88. Orsemus Alvin Parmley 4 , prop, steam laundry, Ogden, Utah; 

b. in Center, Wis., Sept. 1, 1854; m. 1st, in Hebron, Neb., 

March 29, 1883, to Fanny Bigelow ; b. in Buda. 111.. March 15, 

1859; d. in Ogden, Utah, Nov. 2, 1899; m. 2nd, July 3. iQOi, 

to Mrs. Minnie Gertrude [Parsons] Thomas; b. in Kilbourn 

City, Wis., Oct. 20, 1867. 

89. Bailey Austin Parmley 4 , farmer; b. in Center, Wis., Aug. 27, 

1859; d. in, Hebron, Neb., May 15. 1887. 

90. Walter Camp Parmley 4 , city sanitary engineer, in charge of 

sewer construction, Cleveland; b. in Center, Wis.. Dec. 8, 
1862; m. March 13, 1889, to Rose Adelle Webster; b. in White- 
water, Wis., Sept. 29, 1864. 

91. Cyrus Fletcher Parmley, b. in Center, Wis.. Oct. 10, 1866; d. 

in Center, March 10, 1867. 



1- DEAN HISTORY. 

32. Children of < 'rpha I 'ran and Eben Hathorn. 

ij li mer Hathorn 4 , b. in Plymouth, Keck Co., Wis., 

Sept. ii, 1859; (1. in Plymouth, Feb. 26, 1863. 
93. Lucy Adelle Hathorn*, b. in Plymouth, Nov. 3, i860; d. in 

Plymouth, ( >ct. 13, [862. 
Rose Belle Hathorn, asst. librarian Carnegie library, Mason 

City, la.; b. in Plymouth, Wis., March 10, 1863 
95. Infant daughter*, b. in Janesville, Wis., May 16, 1865; d. May 

16, 1865. 
96 Ella Adora Hathorn*, 1). in Janesville, Nov. 15, 1866; d. Dec. 
1 8( >' >. 

97. Hiram Dean Hathorn*, b. in Janesville, Dec. .?. 1867; d. in 

Janesville, Aug. 16, 1868. 

98. Cora Etta Hathorn*, b in Janesville, March 13, 1870; d. Sept 

14, 1870. 

ima Loraine Hathorn*, b. in Janesville, Mar. 24. 1874; d: 
' 6, 1874. 
100. Infant son*, b. 111 Janesville, Nov. 3, [878; d. Nov. 3, 1S7S. 



33. Children of William II. Mean and Martha J. Taylor. 

iot. Frank Leslie I 'can', farmer, Ladysmith, Wis.; b. in Janes- 
ville, Wis., April 13, i860; 111. Oct. 10, 1883, to Alice Eliza- 
beth Inman: b. in Plymouth, Wis., Feb. 12, 1864 

102. Rhoda Estella Dean 1 , b. in Center, Wis., May 7. 1861 ; d. in 
( \ntcr. Jan, 21. 1862 

103. Flora Luella Dean*, b. in Center, Wis., < let. 11. 1862; m. 
March jo. 1884, to William II. Campbell; b. in Richland 
ter, Wis., Sept. 23, 1862; d. in Richland Center. March 
21 . 1886 ; her res. Ri iserm 111. 1 1 

H14 Fred Samuel Dean*, farmer, Ladysmith, Wis.; b. in Center, 
Wis., July 19, 1865; in. July 19, 1898, to Myrta Belle Sad- 
ler; b. in Albanv. Wis., May 30, 1873. 

105. Harriet Belinda Dean', trained nurse, Janesville, Wis,; b. 
in 1 'enter. Wis., Sept. 5, 1866 

33. Children of William II. Dean and Kate Synder. 

to6 Orsemus Snydei I lean', dentist, Oakland, Cal. ; b. in Center, 
. Feb. io, 1870; in Oct. 25, iN'/"). to Evaline Key: b. in 
Ky . July 15, 1870 
107. Perley Sherwood Dean 4 , farmer. Footville, Wis.; b. in Cen 
ler. Wis . May 27, 187 1 
Warren I'.rnce I lean', farmer. Footville, Wis.; b. in Center. 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 49 

Jan. 2i, 1876; m. Nov. 20, igoi, to Maude Lillie; b. in Rock- 
ford, 111., , . 

109. Charlotte Claire Dean 4 , b. in Center, July 31, 1877; m. April 
12, 1901, to James Mabie, farmer, Footville, Wis. 

no. James Camp Dean, artificial limb builder, Houston, Texas; 
b. in Center, Wis., June 12, 1879. 

2>7- Children of Belinda Dean" and Laban Fisher. 

in. Elias Dean Fisher 4 , b. in Center, Wis., Feb. 19, 1870; d. in 
Belvidere, Neb., Dec. 28, 1876. 

112. Rhoda Ann Fisher 4 , b. in Belvidere, Neb., Feb. 6, 1874; d. in 

Belvidere, July 24, 1874. 

113. Lucy Edna Fisher 4 , b. in Belvidere, Neb., April 10, 1878; m. 

Sept. 17. 1902, to Frank E. Sadler, carpenter, Janesville, 
Wis. ; b. in Albany, Wis., May 30, 1875. 

114. Lloyd Rupert Fisher 4 , b. in Belvidere, Neb., April 10, 1884; d. 

in Belvidere, Oct. 4, 1885. 

38. Children of Rosa A. Dean 3 and John M. Wray. 

115 Lillie Marian Wray 4 , b. in Janesville, Wis., Sept., 1869; m. 
Nov. 30, 1893, to Noah Wheeler Burner, farmer, McGuffey; 
b. in Peoria, III, Sept. 16, 1871. 

116. Bertha Mabel Wray 4 . b. in Center, Wis.. July 9, 1872; m. July 

6, 1890, to Seth Bird, farmer. West Liberty; b. in Canton, 
111, May 21, 1863. 

117. Infant son, b. in Belvidere, Neb, Feb. 19,1875; d. Feb. 19, 

1875. 

118. Russell Parmley Wray 4 , b. in Belvidere, Neb, April 21, 1876; 

in Imperial, Neb, Sept. 8, 1890. 

119. Bailey Dean Wray 4 , farmer, McGuffey; b. in Belvidere, Neb.. 

Sept. 2j, 1878; m. Jan. 20, 1901. to Permillie Hunsicker; b. 
in Jerry City, Jan. 5, 1880; d. in McGuffey, Oct. 7, 1902. 

120. Ethel Rose Wray 4 , b. in Belvidere. Neb, Sept. 1, 1882; d. in 

d. in Imperial, Neb, Sept. 8, 1890. 

121. Orsemus Grant Dean 4 , student and farmer, McGuffey; b. in 

Belvidere. Neb, Nov. 19, 1884. 

39. Children of Bailey S. Dean 3 and Emma L. Johnson. 

122. James Ernest Dean, illustrator, Pittsburg, Pa.; b. in East 

Smithfield, Pa, Feb. 23, 1871. 

123. Allie Mabelle Dean 4 , art teacher, Hiram college. Hiram; b. 

in East Smithfield, June 10, 1872. 






DEAN H1STORV 



Children of Silas Austin Dean and Sarah E. Snyder. 

i_\| Winnifrecl hem', bookkeeper, Chicago, 11!.; b. in Center, 

Wis., Aug. 25, [877. 
125 I. ul Garfield Dean', classification clerk in U. S. Interior de 

partment, Chicago, III.; 1>. in Center, Wis., May 7, [890 
Hazel Verne Dean, b. in Chicago, July 5, [891 ; d. in On 

Feb. 26, [896 

42. Children of Walter S. Dean and Man J. Preston. 

127 Fred Clayton Dean 4 , farmer, Lordstown ; 1). in Lordstown, 
July 17, 1N71 ; in. June 29, 1899, to Mamie Eldora Kirk; b. in 

field, Aug. . [879 

us. Ward Preston Dean 4 , student and teacher, Lordstown; b. in 

1 1 irdstown, March 29, [880 
129 Nellie Augusta Dean 4 , student and teacher; b. in Lordstown, 
June 10. [883. 
Ruby Elizabeth Dean', b. in Lordstown, March i_\ [885. 

45. Child of Emily A. Austin and Newton Gregg. 

[31. Roland Austin Gregg 4 , farmer; b. in Hillsdale, Mich., July 
23, 1879 

47. Children of I I nam \\ . Austin and Mary Chandler. 

[32. Chandler Austin 4 , b. in Cincinnati, April 17, 1883; d. in Cin- 
cinnati, June _'5. [884, 
133. Edith Austin, b. in Boston, Maj 6, [885. 

50. Child of Minerva Austin* and Alva Graves. 
[34 Stella Marie Graves 4 , b. in Hillsdale, Mich, Feb. i_», [895 



53. Children of Myron YV. Sackett 1 and Sarah V. Barber. 

'35- Ward Myron Sac!<ett r \ agency direct r Amer. Guaranty Co., 
Chicago, 111 ; b. in Meadville, Pa., Aug. 21, [869. 

[36 Gertrude Sacketl . b in Meadville, July 25, 1871; in. June 30, 
1903, h Sprague, attorney, New Y< rk. 

137 Bertha Sackett"', b in Meadville, Feb. 14. 1S77. 

138 Marian Sacked . 1. in Meadville, March 25, 1879; in. Feb. 7. 

1901, to Walter Irving Bates, editor and publisher; b. Mead- 
ville, June 15. [873 

lla.Mie- Sackett 1 , student, Meadville; b. in Meadville, 
April 16, [883. 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 51 

58. Child of Helen K. Austin 4 ana William C. Pendleton. 

140. Austin Campbell Pendleton'"', clerk. Warren; b. in Warren, 

Aug. 3, 1 881. 

59. Children of Harmon Austin 4 and Sally H. Woods. 

141. Julia Heaton Austin"', b. in Warren, Dec. 1, 1894. 

142. Harmon Woods Austin"', b. in Warren, Aug. 18, 1894; d. in 

Warren, June 7, 1895. 

143. Ruth Berry Austin', 1). in Warren, Nov. 11, 1898. 

60. Children of Mary S. Austin 4 and Thomas Ross. 

144. Elizabeth Ross"', b. in Warren. Feb. 26, 1889. 

145. Randall Austin Ross', 1>. in Cleveland, Feb. 7. 1895. 

146. Austin Ross 5 , b. in Cleveland, June 30, 1902. 

6^. Children of Charles O. Sackett 4 and Carrie H. Green. 

147. Loy Earl Sackett", b. in Cameron, Mo., Nov. 25, 1886. 

148. Arthur Green Sackett'. b. in Cameron, Mo., May 26, 1888. 

64. Children of Lelia L. Sackett 4 and William T. Todd. 

149. L. Minerva Todd 3 , b. in Beatrice, Neb., Jan. 30, 1S89. 

150. Hinsdale Sackett Todd'"', b. in Beatrice. Sept. 13, 1894. 

151. Lelia Sackett Todd 5 , b. in Beatrice, Oct. 1, 1897; d. June 28, 

1899. 

67. Child of Semour C. Briscoe 4 and Clara B. Harper. 

152. Mae La Vina Briscoe"', b. in La Grange, Ind., May i, 1877; 

m. Nov. 2, 1894, to Cassius Marion Leib, superintendent 
schools, Maryville, Mo. ; b. Jan. 10. 1862. 

67. Child of Meinour C. Briscoe 4 and Anna J. Rovve. 

153. George L. Briscoe", b. in La Grange, Ind., Oct. 21, 1S89. 

70. Child of Harmon A. Briscoe 4 and Elnora Ferris. 

154. Ferris Darnell Briscoe"', b. in West Union, la., Nov. 27, 1894. 

75. Child of Harriet S. Turner 4 and Luther E. Wetmore. 
155. Phil Henry Wetmore 5 , b. in Canfield, O., April 29, 1884. 



DEAN HISTORY. 

-\. Children of Wallace Elmer Dean 4 and Melvina E. 
1 [( iover. 

(56. Ruby Elizabeth Dean 5 , b. in Jamestown, Pa., July 22. [882; d. 

in Huntsville, Ala., March 31, [896 
157. Elmer Ward Dean 5 , b. in Newton, Pa., Jan. 2, [888. 

~~. Children of William \V. Dean 4 and Joicy M. Heiges. 

[58. Austin Ephraim Dean 5 , b. in Middlefield, March 3, [892 
[59. William Clio Dean 5 , b. in Middlefield, March 27, [894 

Jewett Mason Dean 5 , b. in Middlefield, May 7. [897 
1 f > 1 . Theron Robert Dean 5 , b. in Middlefield, March 12, [900 

[Children of Mason A. Dean's adopted daughter, Emma E. 
Dean, and Leighton A. Belden. 

Ledah 1*'.. Belden, 1). in Mecca. Aug. 24, [878; in. Feb. 26, 
[896, to 1. yim Meacham, Mecca. 

Charlotte i. Belden, b. in Mecca. Die. 1. [883; in. Jan. 
id. [901, in Dolph Lister. 

Children of Emma Dean Belden and Charles Benton. 

William Mason Benton, b. in Mecca, May 23, [893 
Frances Irene Benton, b. March 26, [896 I 

yg Child mi' Mason 1). Chidester 4 and Minnie E. Ewing. 

162. Rubie Chidester 5 , b. in Canfield, Aug. 14, [889. 

So. Child of Munson B. Chidester 4 and Minnie F.wing 
( Ihidester. 

163. Myrtle Chidester 5 , b. in Canfield, Max jo. [895 

Si. Children of Rheub) I'. Chidester 4 and Emer) Shaffer. 

mi Bessie M. Shaffer 5 , b. in Mecca. Jan. _•<>, [893. 
[65. Helen V. Shaffer 5 , b. in Mecca, May 11, 1895. 
[66. Bernice Y. Shaffer, b. in Mecca. Feb 5. [901 

83. I hild of Rheub) Beardslev* and Ewing Gault. 

[67. A son'', b. Fell ''. [879; d. March 1.?, [879 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 53 

85. Children of Sarah Beardsley 4 and Willis C. Wilson. 

168. Wilber Beardsley Wilson', b. in Canfield. March 2, 1891. 

169. Earl Robert Wilson 5 , b. in Canfield, Sept. 25, 1892. 

170. Pearl Irene Wilson"', b. in Canfield, Oct. 16, 1893. 

86. Children of Ensign Newton 4 Beardsley and Mary Stew- 
art. 

171. Daniel Stewart Beardsley"', b. in Canfield, May 8, 1896. 

172. Ruby Beardsley, b. in Canfield, Oct. 5, 1897. 

!/3- Josiah Dean Beardsley, b. in Canfield, Oct. 29, 1898; d. in 
Green, Aug. J, 1899. 

174. Lester Calvin Beardsley, b. in Green, Dec. 4, 1899; d. in 

Green, May 15, 1900. 

175. Noble Ward Beardsley, b. in Green, Feb. 12, 1902. 

176. Warren Lloyd Beardsley, b. in Green, Feb. 12, 1903; d. in 

Green, July, 1903. 

177. Walter Floyd Beardsley, b. in Green. Feb. 12, 1903; d. July 

18, 1903. 

88. Children of ( ). A. Parmley 4 and Fanny Bigelow. 

178. Nellie Parmley'"', b. in Hebron, Neb., March 31, 1890; d. in 

Ogden, Utah, Sept. 25, 1890. 

179. Dean Bigelow Parmley"', b. in Ogden, Utah, Sept. 20, 1893. 

180. Mary Parmley", b. in Ogden, Nov. 20, 1895. 

90. Children of Walter C. Parmley 4 . 

181. Majorie Parmley"', b. in Ogden, L T tah, Feb. 10, 1892. 

182. Florence Parmley"', b. in Peoria, 111., Jan. 2, 1895. 

100. Children of Frank L. Dean 4 and Alice E. Inman. 

183. Emma Maude Dean 5 , b. in Hanover, Wis., Oct. 30, 1884. 

184. Edna Viola Dean"', b. in Hanover, May 27, 1886. 

185. Genevieve May Dean', b. in Hanover, June 2, 1888. 

186. Milo Edward Dean"', b. in Hanover, Nov. 29, 1889. 

187. William Lawrence Dean', b. in Hanover, Nov. 22, 1893. 

188. Charlotte Marie Dean', b. in Hanover, Feb. 3, 1903. 

102. Children of Flora L. Dean 4 and William H. Campbell. 

189. Roy Theodore Campbell', b. in Richland Center, Wis., April 

19. 1885- 

190. Minor William Campbell"', b. in Center, Wis.. Sept. 10, 1886. 



DEAN H1M> 



1 hil'l of Fred Samuel Dean' and Myrta Sadler. 
Dean 5 , b. in Center, Wis., Jan. 4. 19 

5. Children 1 1 1 'rsemus S. Dean' and Evaline hey. 

\')j Dorothy Ivy Dean", b. in Oaklai Cal., - - 

■ 93 D res Dean, b. in Oakland. ]u'.\ _\ [903; lived 3 hours. 

Child of Charlotte C. I Kan' and James Mabie. 
Bernita May Mabie 1 , b. in Center, Wis., May 5, 1903. 

114. Children of Lillie M. \Vra\ ' and Wheeler Burner. 

rnest \\ ray Burner', b. in Wansa, Neb., Jan. 6, [895 
[96. Roley Williams Burner', b. in McGuffey, 0., Dec. 12, igoo. 

11;. Children of Bertha M. Wrav 4 and Seth Bird. 



197. 

117. 
199- 

L34- 



Chester Bailey Bird', b. in Imperial. Xeb.. Sept. 27, [891. 
Laura Rose Helen Bird'', b. in Sloan, la.. Jan. 26, [895. 

Child of Bailey I). W'ray' and Permillie Hunsicker. 
Helen Ethel Wray\ b. in McGufTey, May u. \t^j; d. Aug. 2, 

Child of Marian Sackett and Walter 1. Bates. 
Elizabeth Bates", b. in Meadville, Pa., Dec. [3, 



14S. Child of Mae L. Briscoe and Cassius M. Leib. 
Jean Paul Leil . b. in La Grange. Ind., Aug. _'5. ; 



DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM DEAN. 



55 



SUMMARY OF WILLIAM DEAN'S FAMILY 



BY GENERATIONS. 



First Generation. 

Second 

Third 

Fourth 

Fifth 

Sixth 



Totals. 



Living. 


Dead. 





1 





10 


15 


26 


48 


33 


55 


11 


2 





120 


81 



Total, 



1 

10 
41 
81 
66 
2 
201 



II. BY FAMILIES. 



Descendants of Orpha . . 
" Hiram... 
" Orsemus. 



" Wm. Bailey 

" Orman 

" Belinda 

" Rebecca.. . . 



37 


16 


23 


20 


46 


28 


1 





4 


3 


8 


2 


0? 


2? 



53 

43 

74 

1 

7 

10 
2 



APPENDIX. 

Note A. 

BENJAMIN DEAN'S ACCOUNT WITH HIS CHILDREN. 

The account is here reproduced, with fac simile of the heading. 
Unless I have misread the figures, some of the columns are not footed 
up correctly. The spelling suggests that our ancestors were disciples 
of the "spelling reform." But that is a common feature of Colonial 
letters and journals. Geo. Washington had a reputation in that respect. 




&■ £» £, r «Jy2'~fi 'Sftcf/** 



'H k v_ 



TO DANIEL DEAN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES. 



1786 
1790 
1791 



To one yoke of steares and horse. 

To one yoke of stags 

To one yoke of oxen 

To part of a yoke of oxen 

To cash 



& 


s, 


20 





8 





10 


4 


9 





24 





71 


4 












56 



DEAN HISTORY 



1789 
1792 

IT'.':: 



1801 
1802 



1790 



L798 
1802 



in IAMES DEAN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES. 



T i t\\. i sunimei 's \\< irk 

^oke of < ixen and harse . 

To a cow 

To three pound toward oxen 

T i .i saddle 

Tn hi.iss cittle 

1 1 1 upper leather 

Ti i cli '\ er ~-f.nl 

To a pari- i 'I' boots 

To a mare 

I ' i cash 



£ 


- 


20 





20 


ii 


:; 





3 





2 


2 


2 





(i 


9 





."> 


l 


10 


in 




30 




95 


6 



To cur c< >w 

To a bed 

I i sundries of household furniture 

1 " thirty shillings by James I Jean 

To sundries of articles of household fur 

niture 

T i a in, iff 

To one hundred dollars .... 



4 





2 





4 


18 


1 


10 


',) 


18 


15 





30 





68 


7 



II 
II 
II 



3 



:; 





H> RUTH DEAN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES. 



ii 

ii 

11 



Pi 

t 

'I 
|| 



TO RACHEL DEAN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES. 



IT'.iii To two c< iwes 

T i .i bed 

To sundries of household furniture, 

I i' mr sheap 

1795 To household furniture 

To ;i Bible 

To a mare 

I i ash 



1 


10 


2 


n 


7 


ID 


1 


4 


3 


11 




1 


13 


10 


2d 


n 


85 


9 



II 



II 

I' 
II 

6 

I' 
o 



APPENDIX. 



57 



TO MARTHA DEAN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES. 



1796 



1806 



To sundries of articles of household furni 

ture 

To one cow 

To one brass kittle 

To half a dozen of chares 

To one chest of drawers 

To one bed 

To a stand 

To money 

To a table 

To sundries 

To a warming pan 

Ten dollars 



£ 


s 


7 


9 


4 





2 


11 


1 


19 


2 


,5 




9 




12 


1 


16 


2 






17 




14 


3 




14 




36 


11 



10 





3 
6 



JOSEPH DEAN HAS HAD THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES, 

NAMELY. 



1800 


One hundred acres of land 

To a mare 


50 

21 

3 

11 
15 

7 
9 

110 





8 

10 
18 







Feb. 


To a harness 

To cash 






1802 


One horse 



























16 





Note B. 

ADDITIONAL GENEALOGIES. 
1. Descendants of Polly Bailey and Truman Parmley. 
Cyrus Parmley and Lucretia Dowd. 

CHILDREN. 

Emily, d, Charles, d. Julia, m., Joseph Festus Berry, 

Quitman, Ga. ch., Julia Maria, Alpha Cyrus, Elpha Grace, 
Delia May, Charles Scott, gymnasium director and asst. 
teacher in Hiram College, Hiram, O., Leslie Lee, Milton 
Clyde, Violet Esther, Bessie May. 

Curtis Parmley and Matilda- — . 

CHILDREN. 

Ira, Charles. Curtis m. 2nd, Mrs. Esther Daniels. 
James Parmley and Lucy Root. 

CHILDREN. 

George, res. Ogden, Utah, Elmer, d. . 



Dl AN HISTORY 



Ira Parmley and Aurora- 



i 1111 HKI N. 

Mary, m. 1st J. C. Cook, 2nd Jordan, Russell, Ida; 

in. A i linn Ross, Harry Truman, Martial Curtis, Camp. 

Russell Parmley and Lucy Dean, see p. 47. 

Lucretia Parmley and Gilman B. Austin. 

' II 1 1 DR E N . 

.\li< e, \\ ilbui , Carrie. 

D< 51 endants of Almon Eastman and Maria Mick. 

Martha; m. 1.. D. Warner, lias ch., I. Almon, Caroline and 
Vinnie. 1 rank; in. A. A. Shaffer, one child, Charles, d. 

la; m. Moses Weldy. Myra; m. John Frazier, children, 
Perley, Mary, John, Walter. Ernest; m. Carrie Reed, one 
child, Helen. Mary; m. H. E. Brobst, children, Esther, 
Luther. Lynn; m. Nora Shaffer, child, Kern. 

3. Descendants of Andrew Harroff and Orpha Flick. 

Mary; in. Sylvester flick, child, Dora. Olive; in. Mark 
Reed, children, Harold, Delia. Daisy; m. Murray McDon- 
ald, children, Bessie, Mildred, John. (Irani; m. Katharine 
Riley, child, Orpha. Flora; m. David Sturgis. Ella. Nellie; 
in. 1st John Hammond, child, Ethel; 2nd William Hammond. 
Ada; in. < >scar Evans, ( luldren, Donald, Gertrude, Rachel. 

1. Descendants ol Robinson Young Flick and Prudence 

Alien. 

Ellen; m. Albert Bingham, children, Franklin, Myrtle. John; 
in. Mary Temple, child, Ethel. Russell; m. Alice Wanna- 
maker, children, Isa, Jay. 

">. Additional descendants ol William Chidester and 
Martha Dean. 

1'liilo; hi. 1st Betsy Chapman, children, William, Norval; m. 
2nd Sibyl |uslyn. Erastus; in. Lydia Sackett, children, Caro- 
line, Clark Sackett, Julius, William Norval, Martha. Chloe; 
in. Walter Smith, children, Samuel, William, Chloe. Wil- 
liam Rush; in. Kliniia Bostwick, children, William, Harriet. 
Julius; in. 1st Harriel Kerris, 2nd Mrs. Tow. Royal Can- 
field, m. Mrs ' iiu Groveri Jarvis, children, Elizabeth, 

II, Etta Main-, ( diaries l'hllo. 



APPENDIX. 59 

Note C. 

BAILEY GENEALOGY. 

Probable ancestry of William Bailey, of Sharon, Conn. 
John 1 (of Salisbury, 1635), a weaver. 
John 2 , b. 1613. 
Rev. James', 1650- 1707. 
Isaac 4 , 1681-1711. 
Saxton 3 , 1 780- 1 743. 

William", m. Hannah (Hunt)? first; and second, probably, 
Mrs. Mary Dibble. 

CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE. 

Hannah, b. in Sharon, Ct., 1763; d. in Canfield, O., May ■, 

1833. 

Belinda, b. in Sharon, in 1767; m. to Alpheus Hitchcock, who 

poisoned her and paid the legal penalty, probably at troy, 
N. Y. 

Parthena, b. probably in Sharon, in 1773; d. in Canfield, 
Sept. 13, 1836; m. 1796, William Dean, of Cornwall, Conn.; 
removed to Ohio in 1810. 

Lucy, b. in Sharon, Aug. 11, 1776; d. in Hinckley, O., Aug. 

18, 1863. 

BY SECOND MARRIAGE. 

Polly, m., 1st, - ■ Camp; 2nd. Truman Parmley in 1814. 
Both removed to Canfield. O., and died in Berlin, O. By 

Camp, Polly Bailey had one son, Alanson Camp, who 

had a son William, who died recently in Warren, O.. and 
a daughter, Nellie, m. George W. Pond, and resides with her 
family in Warren. 

William Bailey, (if the William b. 1736, son of Saxton 
Bailey, found in Lebanon records), had Hannah Hunt as his 
mother. Philander Green says William married a Hunt. He 
lived in Sharon, Ct., which was settled by Lebanon and Col- 
chester people, mostly. A number of the Hunt and Bailey fam- 
ilies of Lebanon moved to Sharon. If son of Saxton, William 
had sisters Hannah and Lucy as well as daughters with those 
names. One son and probably another of Saxton were married 
and perhaps lived in Sharon. Joseph, brother of Saxton, also 
removed to Sharon and also two sons of Ebenezer Hunt, of 
Lebanon, who may possibly have been brothers of Abigail and 



BO 



HI AN HISTORY. 



Hannah Hunt, who married [saac and Saxton Bailey, brothers. 
There are two of those names, daughters of Ebenezer, unac- 
counted for in the limn history, [864. Only Saxton Bailey, 
Jr., oi the children of Saxton, is given in the Bailey history, 
[899, though Hine's address, Lebanon, gives two sons and three 
daughters, besides; and a descendant of Saxton, Jr., wrote me 
that she understood that Saxton, h\. had several brothers. 

Saxton Bailey and Hannah limit had, Hannah [732, Lucy 
[734, William 1736, Amy 1738, Abner [740, Saxton, Jr. 1743, 
(removed to Darien, \. Y., 1808), m. Lois Hunt. William 
Baile) removed to New York somewhere, and visited < >hio, per- 
haps in [812-15, or even later, bringing Hannah with him. She 
remained the rest of her life and he returned alone, in a wagon. 
Was it anywhere near Darien, east of Buffalo, on the line of 
travel of the Connecticut emigrants, where Saxton, Jr., lived: 
Our family tradition says that the Baileys were Welsh. De- 
scendants of Saxton, Jr., have the same tradition, hut their own 
published family history, does not hear that out. John, of 
Salisbury, wrecked off the Maine coast [635, was from Chip- 
penham, Eng. J. E. DEAN. 



Note I 1. 

FAC SIMILE OF SIGNATURES OF THE WIL 
FAMILY 



,1AM DEAN 



//$/) Yt'/i&ct 




JC 







APPENDIX. 



HI 













etfsiv 




It will be observed tbat Parthena Dean signed with her 
mark. It is possible that she was ill and could not write. 
Perhaps she never learned to write. Henry Adams, in his 
History of United States, comments on the decline in learning 
in New England during the later olonial and the Revolution- 
ary period. In extant papers and in Cornwall Records, Ben- 
jamin Dean signs with his mark. Reuben Dean, in an old 
paper I have seen, printed his name. Northwest Connecticut 
was a frontier settlement in the childhood of Benjamin Dean. 

B. S. D. 

Note E. 

DEAN FAMILY REUNIONS. 

On Christmas day, 1897, Mr. Mrs. B. S. Dean of Hiram, 
invited those of the Dean cousins within easy reach to eat 
Christmas turkey with them. Among those present were 



62 DEAN HISTORY. 

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wray, of McGuffey; Mr. and Mrs. II. O. 
Allvn. Nelson; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pendleton, Warren; Mr. 
and Mrs. Walter Dean, Lordstown; Mr. and Mrs. Almus, 
Beardsley, Canfield and Ward Dean, Rosemont. At the 
next holiday season a similar company gathered at the home 
ol WalterS. Dean, of Lordstown. Out of these gatherings 
grew the desire for a larger and more representative reunion 
of the Dean cousins. This resulted in the 

F [RST GENERAL REUNION 

"t th( 1 >eans at the residence of Mr. Ward Dean, Rosemont, 
September 1st, L900. 

Tin- following persons were present: 

Oliver P. Sackett, Charlotte M. Sackett, W. C. Pendleton, Nellie A. 
Pendleton, Mary A. Ross, Harmon Austin, Julia H. Austin, Delia T. 
Stilts, C. A. Sackett, Lottie A. Sackett, Jennie E. Turner, Harriet S. Wet- 
more, Luther E. Wetmore, Phil. 11. Wetmore, Ward M. Sackett, Bertha 
Sackett, Almus Beardsley, Mary Beardsley, 11.11. Kirk, Willis C. Wilson, 
Sarah B Wilson, Wilher Wilson, Earl Wilson, Pearl Wilson, Ensign 
Beardsley, Flora Beardsley, Daniel Beardsley, Ruby Beardsley, femima 
Dean, Hiram J. Beardsley, Munson B. Chidester, Minnie Ewing Chides- 
ter, Ruby M. Chidester, Myrtle M. Chidester., W W. Dean, Joicy M. 
1 'ran, Au-tin I'.. 1 )ean, William C. Dean, Theron R. Dean, Jevvett M. Dean, 
0. A. Parmley, Dean li. Parmley, W. C. Parmley, Rose W. Parmley, 
Marjorie Parinely, Florence Parmely, P.. S. Dean, Emma J. Dean, lames 
Ernest Dean.AUie Mabelle Dean, Rachel W. Dean, Flora D. Campbell, 
Ro) Campbell, Minor Campbell, Ward Dean, Walter S. Dean, Mary I. 
Dean, I red C. Dean, Mamie K. Dean, W. P. Dean, Nellie A. Dean, 
R ubie E. I >ean. 

Papers upon Dean history were read by |. Ernest Dean 
and Ward 1'. 1 )ean. 

It was resolved to hold an annual Dean reunion and B. S. 
Dean was elected president of the Dean reunion and Ward 
1'. Dean secretary. A historical committee was chosen 
consisting of B. S. Dean, Walter S. Dean and Lottie M. 
Sa< kel t. 

The death of Walter Dean in May 1901 and severe illness 
in the family oi B. S. Dean prevented the holding ol a 
reunion that year. < >n the second day of August 1902, 



APPENDIX. 63 



THE SECOND REUNION 



was held at the residence of Almus Beardsley on Dean 
Hill. Canfield. 

The following persons were present: 

Oliver P. Sackett, Charlotte M. Sackett, Myron W. Sackett, Sarah V. 
Sackett, Lottie M. Sackett, Jr., W. C. Pendleton, Nellie A. Pendleton, 
Julia H. Austin, Randall A. Ross, Jennie E. Turner, Harriet S. Wet- 
more, L. E. Wetmore, Flora U. Campbell, B. S. Dean, Emma J. Dean- 
J. Ernest Dean, Allie Mabelle Dean, Rachel W. Dean, Lucy E. Parm- 
ley, S. A. Dean, Ward Dean, Mary J. Dean, Fred C. Dean, Mamie K. 
Dean, Ward P. Dean, Nellie Dean, Rubie Dean, W. W. Dean, Austin 
E. Dean, Willis C. Wilson, Sadie B. Wilson, Earl Wilson, Wilbur Wil 
son, Pearl Wilson, Almus Beardsley, Mary D. Beardsley, Ensign 
Beardsley, Daniel S. Beardsley, Ruby Beardsley, Noble Beardsley, 
Munson C. Chidester, Minnie Ewing Chidester, Ruby M. Chidester, 
Myrtle M. Chidester. 

B. S. Dean gave an account of his visit to Cornwall, 
Conn., in the previous September. Miss Lottie M. Sackett 
made some fitting remarks upon the character and life of 
Walter S. Dean who was so deeply interested in all that 
pertained to the history of the Dean family. Mr. J. Ernest 
Dean made a few remarks upon his further researches in 
early Dean history. He was appointed to fill the vacancy 
in the historical committee caused by the death of W. S. 
Dean, and the committee were authorized to publish the 
results of their researches in pamphlet form. A fund was 
started to cover the cost of publication. B. S. Dean was 
continued as president and Ward P Dean as secretary of 
the association. 

THE THIRD ANNUAL REUNION 

Was held August 13th, 1903, at the residence of B. S. Dean, 
Hiram, O 

The following cousins were present: 

Ward Dean and Mrs. Flora Dean Campbell, Rosemont; Almus and 
Mary Dean Beardsley, and Mrs. Harriet Turner Wetmore, Canfield; 
Mr. and Mrs. Ensign Beardsley, Washingtonville; Rachel Dean, Mrs. 
Walter S. Dean, Fred Dean and wife, Ward P. Dean, Nellie and Ruby 
Dean, of Lordstown; Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pendleton, Warren; Mrs. 
Jemima Dean, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Dean and four children, Burton; 



DEAN HISTORY. 

Mrs. Emma Benton, Mecca; Mrs. Kuby Shaffer, Cortland; Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry Allyn, Nelson; Mrs. Mary Ross, Randall and Elizabeth Ross, 
W. C. Parmley and Miss Jennie Turner, Cleveland; Miss Harriet Dean, 
lanesville, Wis.; Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Dean and Mis6 Allie Mabelle Dean> 
1 liram. 

In addition to the above Dean cousins, Dr. and Mrs. A. S. 
Hayden, of Salem, Rev. and Mrs. (]. L. Wharton, of Hiram 
and Miss Fern Umstead were present. Dinner was served 
in the college Y. M. ('. A. dining room. The history com- 
mittee reported the family history nearly ready for the press 
A further subscription was taken toward the cost ol publica- 
tion. During the year five births, four deaths and three 
marriages have occurred, (See Geneological record. i The' 
same officers were continued and the Association adjourned 
to meet August 11. L904, at the' residence of Mr-. Walter 
S. 1 Van, 1 .ordstown. 



INDKX. 



65 



INDKX. 



Allen— 

Prudence 39 

Ailing — - 

Mrs. Mary 33 

Allyn— 

Henry () 44 

Austin— 

Benajah 21, 28, II, 14, 45 

Belinda Dean 21 

Chandler 50 

Charlotte Minerva 45 

Edith 50 

Enos 41. 45 

Emily Amelia 11. 50 

Fidelia Teresa 45 

Flora Ellen 44 

Frances Parthena 44 

Harmon 41, 15, 51 

Helen King 45, 51 

Hiram William 44, 50 

Homer 44 

fulia Heaton 51 

Mary Sackett 15, 51 

Minerva Sackett 22, 11,50 

Mvron B 45 

Ruth Berry 51 

Sarah 22 

Bailey — ■ 

Abner, Amy, Isaac 

Rev. Tames, Joseph 58 

Belinda, Lucy, Tolly 13, 58 

Hannah 0, 13, 58 

John, Saxton 9, 58 

"Parthena 9, 13, 35 10. 58 

William 9, 13, 35, 58 

Barber — - 

Sarah V H, 

Bascom — 



50 
37 



Bates — 

Sarah Bennet 34, 36 

W. 1 50, 54 

Beardsley — 

Almns 3, 15, 16, 17, 42, 47 

Daniel Stewart, Josiah Dean, 
Lester Calvin, Noble Ward, 
Ruby, Warren T.lovd, Walter 

Floyd 53 

Doc, Fred, Hiram John 47 

Ensign Newton, Sarah 47, 53 

Rheuby 47, 52 

Belden— 

l.eighton 46, 52 

Charlotte L., Eedah l\ 52 



Benton — 

Charles 46, 52 

Frances Irene, William Mason.. 52 
Harmon 18 

Bigelow — 

Fanny 47, 53 

Bingham — 

39 

Bird— 

Seth 49, 54 

Chester Bailey, I. aura Rose. ... 54 

Blanchard — 

George 31 

Sarah 8, 31, 32 

Thomas 8, 31 

Briscoe — 

Aquila < Dr.) 42, 46 

Frank ().. Minerva Sackett.... 46 

Ferris Darnell, George 1 51 

Harmon Austin. Semour C..46, 51 

Mae I. a Vina 51, 51 

Brooks — 

Thomas 5 

Bum pus — ■ 

Edward 33 

Bulkely— 

Rev. Peter 5 

Buss — 

William 6 

Burner — 

N. Wheeler 49, 54 

Ernest W'ray. Roley Williams. . 54 

Buttrick— 

William 5 

Camp — 

13 

Alanson 13, 58 

Nellie. William 58 

Campbell — 

Alexander 18 

Thomas 20 

Minor William. Roy Theodore. . 53 

Sarah 33 

William TT 48, 53 

Carter — 

Ann 32, 33 

Hezekiah 10 

Martha 33 

Chandler — 

Mary 44, 50 






S HISTORY, 



Ha- 



47 

15. i 



15 

■» '• 





31, 

e — 

Thomas 

Dami 'ii — 

Julius 

Davis 

nnah 8, 31, 32 

Davidson — 

Elizabeth 42 

Aaron .'11 

Allie Mabelle 40 

Ashbel 

tin 23, 12, 46 

■n 

Bail t. 1", it. 

la ii, 10 

Benjamin :, 31, 

34, !8, ii. 42 

36 

Charles Watson 40 

Altha 40 

Charlotte Claire r 

53 



Ion 

el 12, 31, 32, : 

31 

38 



[ vy 54 

lla R it 

field 

Ebenezer 34, 36 

la 

Elizabeth 31, 3i 





Emma Maude 53 

Emma i 16 





r.uella If 

i 

50 

Fred Samuel i 

M 



Belinda 48 



50 

Hiram 19, 21, 22, 10, 12 



imp 19 

■ 3, 5, 9, 49 







Ward 





Lucile 

Lucinda 



ther 43, 



i L3, 15, ::::. 34, 35, 



Parthena 42, 

n 23, 42, 

ed 

Milo Edward 

va 

Miranda 

= - 

ta 

Orman 1". 26, U, 

Orpha 10. 21, 40, 

na 13, 

us Snyder 48, 



Parthena 

Perley Shi 

Polly 36, 

ilia 2 

' 12, 18 ■. 36, 

Reuben 8, 10, 11, 32, 33, 

a Hi 

Rheubv 21, 22, 

Rhoda 

i 

\nn 13, 

Ruby Elizabeth 

Ruth 12 16, ..!. 35, 

n 

Samuel 33, 

el Gray 

Sarah 31, 32, 

Vustin 4;;, 

Sophia 

Stephen : " ; - 

Submit 

• nah 

Thankful 

' 

Thomas ....... 

Wallai I i r 40, 

Walt. ' : 

Ward 

Ward Preston 

Warren Bruce 

in 9, 35, 36, 37, 40, 

y 10. 25, II. 

William Clio 

William Hayden 43, 

William Lawrence 

William W'akeinan I 1 " 

Winnjfred 



Dibbl 

M 
Die-Ill 



52 
87 

7 

35 
54 
35 

47 

44 

47 
4.'. 
31 
53 

4-: 



44 
41 
48 
4? 
54 

13 

48 
37 
47 
41 

u 
4S 
: 
18 
49 
52 

34 
43 
33 

12 
35 
34 
33 
34 

34 
52 
50 
43 
50 
18 
41 
43 

18 
53 

52 
50 



58 



Philip 25 

25, II. IS 

Dickenson — 

Elisha ss 



INDEX. 



67 



Dwight— 

Pres 10 

Eastman — 

Almon 36, 37, 38, 39 

Belinda, Deborah A., Electa, 
Esther, Janus. John, Joseph, 
Melissa, Rollin (.'.. William, 

William H 37 

Charles E-, Darwin A., Julia A., 
Tulius J., Martha C, Mary 

A.. Sarah M 38 

Sarah 35, . 

Jonathan 1;.', 34, 35, 31 

William Dean 36, 31 

Ira 36 

Estabrook — 

Rev. .lost jih 31 

Ewing — 

Clark 16 

Minnie 47, 52 

Fairchild — 

Harriet :;s 

Ferris — ■ 

Elnora 40 - 51 

Field- 
Mary 34, 36 

Fisher — 

Elias Dean, Lloyd Rupert. Lucy 

Edna, Rhoda Ann 49 

Laban 43, 4J 

Flick- 
Ella, Icy, Jay, Orpha, Robinson, 

Russell :; ' J 

John 13, 18, 36 39 

Maria 6I > ,iv 

Foote — 

Sally 36 

Francis — 

Lucretia 33, 35 

Fuller- 
Elizabeth 7. 31 

Margaret (Ossoli) 7 

Thomas 7 

Gault— 

Ewing 47, 52 

Graves — 

Alva 44, 50 

Stella Marie >" 

Green — 

Alanson, Almon B 13, 14 

Calvin, Frank M 16 

Carrie II 45, 51 

rin lander 9, L6, 58 

Samuel 13, 14, 16 

Gregg- 
Newton 44, 50 

Roland Austin 50 



Gridley — 

D 36 

Harbaugh — 

Sarah A 38 

I [arper — • 

Clara B j (; . .-, i 

I [arrison — 

George II | > 

Harroff— 

Andrew ;-,•, 

I larvey — 

Lois 36, 37 

I fathom — 

Eb( 11 4;;, tg 

Rose Belle 48 

Hayden — ■ 

A. S. 1 Sutton), Samuel, Wil- 
liam is, 23 

Rhoda 24, 40 

Hayes — 

David 16, 1 v. ;;4, :;r, 

lyl< , Nathaniel, Orlando, Ruth.. 36 
Eliza, John, Leander, Lincoln, 

Lucy. Milo, Phebe, Ruby.. 
Huldah, James Dean, Rachel. 36, 39 

Heald— 

John 31. 

Heiges — 

Joicy Mary 46, 52 

1 line — ■ 

Henry 16 

Hine — 

59 

Hitchcock — ■ 

Alpheus 13, 58 

Hoover — 

Melvina E 46, 52 

Hosford — 

Harriet 36 

1 1 1 ^mer — 

J aim s (j 

I lunt — 

Hannah. Deac, Jonathan, Miss. 9 
Abigail, Ebenezer, Hannah. 
Lois 58, 59 

I uraan — 

Alice E 48, 53 

Ivey — 

Evalinc 48, 54 

Johnson — - 

Emma Lydia 43, 49 



- 



Dl AN HISTORY . 



15 

l l 



46 
50 



38 



Johnston — 

J ames 

(Cell j 

ge 

Kerley 

.1 . F. 

Kirk 

1 lomer II 

Mamie Eldora 

I .ee — 

Mai tin G 

I. rib — 

us M 

Jean Paul 

I .i-i >nard — 



I.illie— 

.vlaud 

1 .ister — 

1 imIj.Ii 

Mabie — 

Bernita May 

James 4'J 

ill — 

Abner 

Rheuby ; 

Meacham — 

Lynn 

McNeeley — ■ 

Eliza 

Mill, 

Thomas 

Sylvia 

Mulner — 

Rebecca 15, : 

X idi i ilson — 

Antoinette 38 

Page — 

31 



.".I 
54 



30 
49 



54 
54 



22 

1.' 



13 



18 



I'aliiHT 



I [enry 

Sarah 



Parmlej 

Augustus, Electa, Lucinda. . .13, 
Bailey Austin, Cyrus Fleti 
Curtis, I [ra, Janus, 

Lucretia 

Dean Bigelow, Florence, Mar- 

jorii Nellie 

Orsemus Alvin, W np.47, 

ell 13, 43, 

Truman l.'t, 18, 34, 37, 

Parsons — 

Mrs. M.S 



36 
37 



l. 
13 



• - 
4T 



1 'caret- — 

A. la Mrs 35, 40 

Pellet— 

Thos., and family 31, 32 

Pendleti 'ii 

n Campbell 51 

William Campbell 45, ."1 1 

Phelps— 

Julia 36, ::- 

Presti m — 

Mary J 1 1, 50 

Quackinbush — 

Mary :;'.i 

Quiggle— 

William 42 

Reader — 

Sarah 38 

Redrup — 

Sarah 37 

Reym ilds — 

1 U 1 mina 45 

Ricketts — 

Louisa 38 

R, iss — 

Austin, Elizabeth, Randan Aus- 
tin 51 

S. B. (Rev.) 38 

I homas 45, 51 

Ri 1 we — 

Anna J 41;, 5] 

l\' i\\ lee — ■ 

Jemima 42, 16 

Rummage- 
Eliza 39 

Sackett — 

Alzerah, Achsah, Benjamin, 
Betsey, Clarinda, David, Eld- 
Freeman, Huldah, 

Justus 38 

Vrthui t .1 een, I ,oj Earl 51 

Charles t (liver 45, '.1 

Charlotte Maria :;, 4, 4'.' 

1 1 trude, Ward Mj ron . 50 
Charlotte Minerva, Clark, Emma 

1 irlotte, I larry Evans 45 

Edgal I faynes 

Jane. Mary Melissa 12, 16 
Minerva, Sarah I'ar- 

Ihena 41, 45 

I.elia l.nella 1 i 



n 50, 54 

Myron 18, 21, 10, 1 1 

Myron Ward 11. 50 

Amelia 4'_' 

• Patch 12, 15 

Simmons 1 - 

Ward Eldred 41. it 



INDEX. 



69 



Sadler — 

Frank E 49 

Myrtle Belle 48, 54 

Scott- 
Lois L 38 

Walter IS 

Searles — ■ 

Caroline, Solomon 37 

Deborah 36, 38 

Shaffer— 

Berenice Y., Bessie M., Helen 

V 52 

Emery 47, 52 

Shaw — 

Electa 36 

Shively — 

George 44 

Smith — 

Walter 35 

Snyder — 

Kate 43, 48 

Sarah 43, 50 

Sprague — 

Seth 50 

Stearns — 

Mary E 42, 45 

Starr — 

E. C. (Rev.) 35 

Stewart — 

37 

Tohn 36, 39 

"Mary 47, 53 

Stiles— 

Frank 45 

Tanner — ■ 

Hannah, Ruth 8, 33,34 

Thomas S, 11, 33 

Tryal 8 

Taylor — 

Martha J 43, 48 

Thomas — 

Cyrus 37 

Minnie G. (Mrs.) 47 

Todd— 

Hinsdale Sackett. Minerva, Lelia 

S 51 

W. J 45, :.l 



Truesdale — 

Jackson ( Dr.) 30 

Margaret 35, 37 

Tumpkins — ■ 

William 37 

Turner — 

Charles R 41, 4:.', 45, 46 

Elsie 42, 45 

Fidelia T 41, 44 

Harriet 46, 51 

Harriet Sackett, Jennie Estelle. 46 
Ward Sackett 45 

Waitley— 

Corydon 42 

Walker— 

31 

Webster — 

Gov. John 9 

Rose Adelle 47, 53 

Wetmore — 

Luther E 4G, 51 

Phil Henry 51 

Willard— 

Simon 5 

Williams — ■ 

Elizabeth, James 44 

Henry 41, 44 

Nancy 27, 41, 44 

Willoughby — 

Olive 15, 33, 34 

Wilson — ■ 

Earl Robert, Pearl Irene. Wilber 

Beardsley 53 

Willis C 47, 53 

Woods — 

Henrv Ernest 7 

Sally H 45 

Woodward — 

Rachel 43 

Wray — 

Bailey Dean. Bertha Mabel, I.il- 
lie Marian 40, 5 I 

Ethel Rose, ' Irsemus Grant, Rus- 
sell 1'armlev 49 

John M ' 43, 49 

Young — 

John 14 

Zieger — 

Ellen 47 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



021 549 465 2 



